The story so far: While 41 candidates have been elected unopposed out of the 57 Rajya Sabha seats up for election across 15 states, a contest for 16 remaining would still be witnessed on June 10 in Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Karnataka, where parties have fielded more nominees than their legislative strength in the State Assemblies.
The race for the biennial Rajya Sabha polls in those four States intensified as parties traded allegations of poaching or horse-trading. In Rajasthan, the ruling Congress demanded that an FIR be registered against BJP backed independent Independent candidate and media baron Subhash Chandra and BJP leaders for alleged horse-trading attempts while the BJP wrote to the Election Commission and Enforcement Directorate expressing apprehensions about possible horse-trading and use of black money in the upcoming Rajya Sabha election in Rajasthan, where voting for four seats will take place on June 10.
