UPA wins RS seats in Jharkhand |
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Ranchi:
The Congress and the JMM wrested both the Rajya Sabha seats from the NDA in the bypolls held on Sunday, giving a fresh impetus to the UPA’s claim of forming an alternative government in Jharkhand that is under the President’s Rule for six months now.
Congress’s Dheeraj Sahu, who expectedly got the votes of 43 UPA MLAs, bagged an extra vote — from JD(U)’s MLA Radha Krishna Kishore. JMM’s Hemant Soren sailed through by securing 38 votes in the 82-member House whose current effective strength is 73.
The NDA had fielded Ajay Maroo against Soren and Anup Agarwal against Sahu from the two seats in the Upper House that fell vacant after BJP’s Yashwant Sinha and JD(U)’s Digvijay Singh were elected to the Lok Sabha.
Three votes — of RJD MLAs Chunna Singh and Ramchandra Singh, and JD(U) MLA Khiru Mahato who had cast their votes in favour of Dheeraj — were declared invalid.
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