Rajya Sabha Election
Voting for 16 Rajya Sabha seats in four states currently underway
New Delhi: Voting for election of 16 Rajya Sabha seats in four states across India is currently being held on Friday.
Polling is taking place a week after 41 candidates from 11 states were declared elected unopposed to the upper house of the Parliament.
Polling is taking place for seats from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Haryana.
The election to the Upper House is crucial in view of the upcoming Presidential poll.
Polling will take place from 9 am to 4pm.
Counting of votes is expected to start at 5pm.
The elections for electing India's 15th president will be held on July 18 and the results will be declared on July 21, the Election Commission announced Thursday.
The election to elect the new president will be held as President Ram Nath Kovind's tenure ends on July 24, 2022.
He was elected in 2017.
The president is elected by an electoral college comprising the members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and the elected members of the legislative assemblies of states and the union territories.
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