The numbers would take the party's tally in Rajya Sabha to 97 and that of BJP-led NDA to 117, just four short of the majority mark of 121 in the 240-member House once all 56 members are sworn in
"It is a matter of great happiness that all eight BJP candidates won. This is an indication that this time we will cross 400 (in Lok Sabha elections) and win 80 out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh," Trivedi told ANI.
The Rajya Sabha polls for 15 seats across three states were marked by cross-voting, with the BJP winning 10 seats, the Congress three and the Samajwadi Party two seats
Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader Sushil Gupta on Tuesday extended gratitude to party supremo Arvind Kejriwal after the party announced his candidature for Haryana's Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat.
In a big setback for the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh, party's nominee for Rajya Sabha polls, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, lost the poll after which BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan who won the lone seat in the state said that the loss of the grand old party is the failures of the Sukhu gove
As the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh won eight seats in Rajya Sabha polls while the Samajwadi Party managed to secure victories on two seats, State BJP MLC Mohsin Raza said that "Ye 8 nahi, 80 ki tayyari hai".
Uttar Pradesh Minister Dinesh Pratap Singh on Tuesday said that whichever candidate the Bharatiya Janata Party fields from the Raebareli constituency will receive his full support.
"I don't think the BJP is going to win a single seat in Kerala. Their strongest performance has always been in Thiruvananthapuram, where they came twice. I am not expecting that they will be anything better than that this time around either. Everywhere else, we have strong candidates," Tharo
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday claimed that the Congress has lost the Rajya Sabha election and congratulated party's candidate Harsh Mahajan for winning the polls.
Following the finalisation of the seat-sharing pact between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress in Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Chandigarh and Goa, AAP leader Somnath Bharti said on Tuesday that the INDIA bloc has been made in the interest of the public and not political parties.