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New Delhi:
Polling for 18 Rajya Sabha seats in five states began on Thursday to
decide the fate of Union minister Anand Sharma, LJP supremo Ram
Vilas Paswan, legal luminary Ram Jethmalani, former BJP chief M
Venkaiah Naidu and liquor baron Vijay Mallya among others.
The BJP is faced with opposition within its ranks in Rajasthan over
the candidature of Jethmalani for having defended Parliament attack
convict Afzal Guru. The party has herded its legislators in a hotel
to keep the flock together.
The decision of CPI(M) to abstain from voting in Rajasthan seems to
have favoured the chances of two BJP candidates as an aspirant would
now require 40 votes instead of earlier 41 to sail through.
Under the circumstances, the BJP with its 79 members and one JD (U)
MLA would not require vote from outside if all of them back
Jethmalani and the other nominee V P Singh. Besides, keeping its
MLAs in the hotel, BJP has also issued a whip.
The ruling Congress with its strength of 102 MLAs in the Rajasthan
Assembly has already ensured the victory of Anand Sharma, Commerce
and Industry Minister, and Ashq Ali Tak, and the party is keen to
see industrialist-cum-politician Santosh Bagrodia entering the Upper
House. Bagrodia, however, needs outside support.
In Karnataka, where four seats are up for grabs, Mallya is all set
to win one of them with the support of ruling BJP which was
initially divided over its backing to him because his candidature
was favoured by its friend-turned-foe JD(S).
"BJP has taken a decision to defeat the Congress candidate in the
Rajya Sabha election as per the directive by the national
leadership," state unit BJP chief K S Eswarappa said in Bangalore,
indicating his party would help Mallya, the JD-S backed independent,
to ensure his second term.
Mallya has spoken to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and other BJP
leaders, he said responding to a query but sidestepped a question on
whether any decision has been taken to vote for the liquor baron.
Mallya needs 45 first preference votes for victory.
Of the 56 vacancies, 32 candidates including Union Minister Ambika
Soni, Gandhi family loyalist Satish Sharma, BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas
Naqvi, senior journalist Chandan Mitra and Union Minister of State
for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh were elected unopposed.
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