Odisha minister says all 3 BJP-backed candidates have gained, official outcomes awaited| India Information

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: Odisha minister Rabi Narayan Naik informed ANI information company that the 2 BJP Rajya Sabha nominees within the state – Manmohan Samal and Sujeet Kumar – had gained. He additional mentioned that the Impartial candidate backed by the social gathering, Dilip Ray, had additionally registered victory.

“The counting has concluded, and all three BJP-backed candidates, Manmohan Samal, Sujeet Kumar and Dilip Ray have gained…” Naik mentioned.

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday congratulated the BJP’s Rajya Sabha ballot nominees in addition to the Impartial candidate backed by the social gathering for “profitable” the elections.

“Heartfelt congratulations and greatest needs to the social gathering’s state president Shri @SamalManmohan7 Ji, who emerged victorious as a candidate on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Get together within the Rajya Sabha elections, the social gathering’s senior chief Shri @SujeetKOfficial Ji, and the party-supported unbiased candidate Shri @DilipRayOdisha Ji,” the Odisha CM mentioned in a put up on X.

Outcomes of the polls are but to be introduced formally. BJP Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal and the social gathering’s sitting Rajya Sabha MP Sujeet Kumar had been the official candidates, whereas the social gathering had backed former union minister Dilip Ray.

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday claimed that there had been an “try at interference” with the Rajya Sabha election in Haryana.

“There’s a clear try to intrude with the integrity of the election and it have to be stopped/ redressed by the ECI instantly,” mentioned Kharge in a letter to the ballot physique. “Moreover, no disqualification of our authentic voters/ votes forged could be allowed in what’s clearly a clear try to taint/ derail the method,” the letter additional said.

Kharge has sought time with the ECI, asking the ballot physique to fulfill a delegation led by Abhishek Manu Singhvi and different senior Congress leaders.

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: Voting for 2 Haryana Rajya Sabha seats was halted on Monday. This was after BJP’s Gaurav Gautam and Kishan Bedi objected to 2 Congress votes, whereas Congress too objected to minister Anil Vij’s vote, ANI information company reported.

The counting was halted for over an hour.

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: Following BJD chief Naveen Patnaik’s allegations of cross-voting, Odisha minister Sampad Chandra Swain mentioned it was “not unlawful” to concern a brand new poll paper.

“It’s within the guidelines and never unlawful. If a member goes to forged a vote, and there appears to be a problem within the poll, the Presiding Officer can test and concern a brand new one…” Swain informed ANI information company.

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: Even because the NDA is eyeing a sweep in Bihar, RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav hs claimed that his social gathering’s candidate has acquired extra votes than the BJP candidate.

“So far as our candidate is anxious, we acquired 37 votes, whereas Shivesh, the BJP’s fifth candidate, acquired solely 30 votes, and recounting is underway,” Yadav informed ANI information company.

“We wish the counting course of to be truthful, not beneath any stress. Shivesh Ram will get 30 votes, and we get 37, then we’re profitable this election… If the ruling social gathering is getting it recounted, it means they’ve misplaced and try to drive a victory. Dishonesty is the BJP’s job…” he additional mentioned.

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: The voting for the 4 Rajya Sabha seats in Odisha ended at 6 pm Monday. At the very least 5 MLAs of the opposition BJD and Congress reportedly voted in favour of BJP-supported Impartial nominee Dilip Ray.

The polling for the Rajya Sabha polls was held within the state after a niche of 12 years. 5 candidates are within the fray for 4 seats, which can fall vacant on April 2.

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: The NDA on Monday appeared poised for a straightforward victory in Bihar within the biennial polls to 5 Rajya Sabha seats within the state.

Whereas counting of votes is anticipated to conclude later at this time, sources within the alliance claimed “all 202 MLAs” had taken half within the voting. This comes at the same time as three MLAs of the Congress and one of many RJD remaining absent from polling.

Rajya Sabha LIVE Updates: The ruling NDA in Bihar appears set for a clear sweep within the elections to 5 Rajya Sabha seats.

As per a PTI report, sources within the NDA claimed that every one 202 MLAs belonging to the alliance had forged their votes.

These embrace legislators from Kumar’s JD(U), the Lok Janshakti Get together (Ram Vilas) led by Union minister Chirag Paswan, the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) headed by Jitan Ram Manjhi, and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha led by Upendra Kushwaha, who can be among the many 5 candidates.

Rajya Sabha Elections LIVE: Some congress MLAs and 1 RJD MLA had been absent from voting for the 5 Bihar seats within the Rajya Sabha, say reviews. This has reportedly helped NDA safe the fifth seat in Bihar as effectively. The outcomes for all of the 37 seats will probably be out because the counting is at present going down.

Rajya Sabha Polling LIVE: Voting is completed for the two seats in Haryana ended at 4 pm.

Whereas the INLD, which has two legislators, abstained from voting, the Congress MLAs, who had been shifted to Himachal returned shortly after the polling started at 9 am and forged their votes.

Within the fray are BJP candidate Sanjay Bhatia, Congress’s Karamvir Singh Boudh and Impartial candidate Satish Nandal.

PTI reviews that not less than 5 MLAs from of the opposition BJD and Congress on Monday have reportedly voted for an unbiased nominee Dilip Ray and he’s backed by BJP.

Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Bhakta Charan Das informed reporters that three of its MLAs – Ramesh Jena, Dasarathi Gomango and Sofia Firdous – have “voted in favour of the BJP”.

Rajya Sabha Elections LIVE Updates: Absence of three Congress MLAs and one RJD MLA possible to make sure victory of NDA candidates for Rajya Sabha from Bihar. Many NDA leaders, throughout BJP and JDU, have already said that they’re set for a clear sweep within the elections.

Rajya Sabha elections dwell: The Higher Home bid farewell to former CJI Ranjan Gogoi who retired at this time after finishing his six-year time period in workplace.

Chairman CP Radhakrishnan mentioned as a distinguished jurist, Gogoi introduced unparalleled authorized acumen and expertise to the deliberations of the Home.

“His intervention within the Rajya Sabha mirrored deep understanding of legislative course of and public curiosity,” he mentioned.

Rajya Sabha elections dwell: Naveen Patnaik, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief and Chief of Opposition within the Odisha Meeting (LoP), slammed the voting course of within the ongoing Rajya Sabha elections, claiming that election norms had been violated after a legislator was issued a second poll paper.

Chatting with ANI, Patnaik mentioned that polling officer went towards the rule when a MLA from the Brahmagiri Meeting constituency made an error whereas casting her vote and was supplied with second poll paper.

“The MLA of Brahmagiri had made a transparent mistake whereas voting. However the officer sitting within the voting room who’s in command of this has illegally accepted her vote and has issued a second poll paper. That is completely towards the democratic norms and a violation of election guidelines,” Patnaik mentioned.

Rajya Sabha elections 2026 LIVE: Congress MLA Vinesh Phogat has expressed confidence on the Rajya Sabha elections. “We’re assured. All our MLAs are united…Our confidence is as a result of social gathering and our MLAs,” she informed reporters.

Rajya Sabha elections dwell:Polling for the 4 Rajya Sabha seats in Odisha was halted for about half-hour, reported PTI, over a dispute on the issuance of a second poll paper to a BJP MLA.

The opposition BJD agent objected to the issuance of a second poll paper to BJP MLA Upasana Mohapatra.

She sought one other poll paper for overwriting on the one, issued in her identify earlier. Later, Mohapatra was allowed to forged her vote.

BJD president Naveen Patnaik strongly objected to the issuance of a second poll paper to the BJP MLA.

“The woman MLA from Brahmagiri made a transparent mistake whereas voting. Nonetheless, the officers current within the voting room, who’re in cost, have illegally accepted her vote and issued a second poll paper.

“That is utterly towards democratic norms and a violation of election guidelines. We strongly object to this. A few of our members have raised the difficulty, however they aren’t listening, thereby destroying the democratic election course of,” Patnaik informed reporters, as per PTI.

Forward of the polling, the Congress had moved its MLAs to Kasauli on Friday, reported PTI. Accompanied by State Congress chief Rao Narender Singh, social gathering common secretary in-charge of Haryana, B Okay Hariprasad and a few social gathering MPs from the state, together with Deepender Singh Hooda, the MLAs had been shifted to Kasauli in Solan district on Sunday and returned to Chandigarh on Monday morning. This was achieved attributable to fears of cross voting.

Not all 37 Congress MLAs in meeting went to Himachal, together with former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had additionally stayed again.

Because the voting is underway in Rajya Sabha to fill spots in 37 seats throughout 10 states, Bihar JDU President Umesh Singh Kushwaha mentioned that NDA is ready to formally announce victory. “NDA solely has to formally declare victory. 101% our victory is for certain. It doesn’t matter what ways the opposition resorts to, voting is occurring in favour of the NDA. All 5 seats will probably be in favour of the NDA,” he mentioned.

He added, “Detaining legislators is an insult to democracy. Some legislators have been freed and aren’t in captivity, so we salute their braveness.”

Polling is going down on 4 Rajya Sabha seats in Odisha. To not neglect, fairly a drama passed off earlier than the polls, notably in Odisha seats as BJD and Congress accused BJP of partaking in ‘horse buying and selling’.

Two candidates of the BJP are its state unit president Manmohan Samal, and sitting Rajya Sabha MP Sujeet Kumar. Former Union minister Dilip Ray can be contesting as an Impartial and has the help of the saffron social gathering.

The BJD nominees are social gathering chief Santrupt Misra and eminent urologist Dr Datteswar Hota, whom the Congress and the CPI(M) are supporting.

Trinamool Congress walked out of Rajya Sabha, on the day of voting to fill 37 seats throughout 10 states within the higher home. This act was in protest to the choice taken by Election Fee to take away the chief secretary Nandini Chakravorty, simply hours after state election dates had been introduced.

Bihar minister Mohammad Zama Khan believes the JDU-BJP alliance will win the Rajya Sabha elections. He mentioned, “I need to thank all of the folks of Bihar for his or her blessings, attributable to which we’re going to win the Rajya Sabha elections.”

He added, “Many individuals are with us who like growth, who like the way in which our authorities works. I’ll undoubtedly say that many companions are in contact with us as a result of they need growth.”

Rajya Sabha elections dwell: Singer and BJP MLA Maithili Thakur reached the parliament to forged her vote.

In the meantime, JDU nationwide working President Sanjay Kumar Jha mentioned that every one NDA candidates from Bihar will safe victory within the higher home elections.

“NDA will win all 5 seats with a giant margin. 4 seats are confirmed. We may even win the fifth seat,” he mentioned. Bihar minister Mangal Pandey additionally mentioned the identical whereas taking a jibe over reviews of RJD transferring their MLAs to a resort to forestall any cross-voting.

Anil Vij, minister in Haryana authorities, turned as much as forged his vote regardless of fractures in each of his leg. He mentioned that he was assured BJP will win each of the seats they’re contesting for in Rajya Sabha from Haryana.

To this point, a complete of 176 MLAs from the NDA have forged their votes. At he similar time, 37 MLAs from the Opposition alliance, the Mahagathbandhan, have voted. Solely 24 MLAs from RJD have turned as much as forged their votes up to now.