Currently, BJP has eight and Congress has three members in Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. The BJP will retain its three upper house seats from the state when vacancies arise in August next year.
The party will win two out of four additional seats in the biennial election in April 2024 and one more out of the other four seats going to the polls in June 2026, bringing its total tally to 11 by the state. Such a feat is rare in larger states, especially when more than one state seat goes to the polls.
Instead, the Congress assembly tally in Himachal will allow the party to have one in three seats from the state in the Rajya Sabha in April 2024 ahead of the next parliamentary elections and a second one two years later.
Currently, all three Himachal Pradesh members in the upper house are from the BJP. It includes party chairman JP Nadda who is due to retire in April 2024. The fate of the third seat from the state will only be decided by the next assembly as the vacancy arises there in 2028.
The overall composition of the upper house will not change in fact next year, when only 10 seats will become vacant due to members retiring. The noticeable change is expected only in April 2024 (around the next parliamentary election) when 56 seats will go to the polls in the biennial election.
At present, the current Rajya Sabha strength is 239 as there are six vacant seats (four from J&K and two nominated) in the House of 245. BJP is the largest party with 92 MPs followed by Congress (31 MPs) , TMC (13 MPs), and DMK and AAP with 10 each.
At present, Himachal, Delhi, Punjab, Telangana and Uttarakhand are the five states where a single party has all the seats in the Rajya Sabha, if states with only one RS MP are not counted.
