Karnataka election victory will help Congress in Rajya Sabha elections in 2024

The election results will help the Grand Old Party win three of the four Rajya Sabha seats in the state that will fall vacant next year.

term of four Rajya Sabha The state members – Syed Nasir Hussain, GC Chandrasekhar and L Hanumanthaiah of the Congress and Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the BJP – expire in 2024.

The BJP, which won 65 of the state’s 224 assembly seats on Saturday, will be able to get one of its candidates elected to the Rajya Sabha next year. The BJP currently has six Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Of the 12 Rajya Sabha seats in the state, the Congress has five and the Janata Dal (Secular) has one.

Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda is the only JDS member in the Rajya Sabha.

Deve Gowda and the term of the Congress President mallikarjun kharge Will end up with Iranna Kadali and Narayana Koragappa (both of BJP) in 2026.

The tenure of four other members including Sitharaman will end in 2028.

Making an emotional appeal to voters in his home constituency on the last day of campaigning mallikarjun kharge He was told to take pride in the fact that he had been made the AICC president as a “Bhumiputra” of Karnataka, and sought victory for the Congress in that name.

That seems to have worked for him in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly elections held on May 10 and votes counted on Saturday, with voters awarding the Congress a majority of 136 seats.

The Congress returned to power on its own in Karnataka after 10 years, ousting the BJP from its lone southern enclave on Saturday as voters decisively backed the grand old party seeking an electoral revival ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. .

The party has won 135 seats and is leading in one.