Four candidates submitted nomination papers for the three seats of Rajya Sabha (File)
Jaipur:
Voting for the three Rajya Sabha seats in Rajasthan will take place on June 19 in the premises of the Legislative Assembly.
“Preparations for the Rajya Sabha poll have been completed. Voting will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and the count will take place from 5:00 p.m.,” said returning officer Pramil Kumar Mathur.
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, all necessary precautions, including social distancing, will be followed during the elections, he added.
Four candidates have submitted nomination papers for the three seats in the upper house of parliament, said Mathur.
The ruling Congress appointed KC Venugopal and Neeraj Dangi, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sent Rajendra Gehlot and Onkar Singh Lakhawat.
Within the Rajasthan Assembly, which has 200 members, the Congress has 107 deputies and the support of independent legislators and deputies of other parties such as the Rashtriya Lok Dal, the CPI (M) and the tribal party Bharatiya ( Construction).
The ruling party has enough strength in the House to win two of the three seats and the opposition BJP, with 72 deputies and the support of three legislators from the Rashtriya Loktantrik party, has the numbers to comfortably win a seat.
Before the elections, Congress and the BJP moved MPs from their camps to different hotels.
Congress accused the BJP of trying to poach its deputies for the ballot boxes of Rajya Sabha and of destabilizing the government, an accusation denied by the opposition party.
Congressmen as well as independents and legislators from other parties who support the government have been staying at a hotel on the Delhi highway for the past week, while the Saffron party has moved its members to a hotel on the road to Tonk here Tuesday.
