New Delhi, 4/4: After the upcoming biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, the number of Congress MPs in the Rajya Sabha will be greatly reduced. The biggest concern for the party is the shrinking of its geographical base. The Congress will not have representation in the Rajya Sabha from 17 states and union territories. At the end of March, the strength of Congress in the Rajya Sabha was 33. While four Congress Rajya Sabha members have already retired, nine more will retire in June and July. After the elections, the number of Congress members will come down to 30. Which is the lowest ever figure of Congress in Rajya Sabha. The Congress expects the DMK to give it one of the six seats that will fall vacant. In that case its number would be 31.
The crushing defeat in Punjab led to a reduction in the number of Congress MPs in the Rajya Sabha, while the number of Aam Aadmi Party members increased. Now the Congress will not have any representation in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Delhi and Goa. For the first time, even from eight states of the Northeast, it will not have any representative in the Rajya Sabha. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a Rajya Sabha MP from Assam till he moved to Rajasthan in 2019. Of the 30 or 31 seats that the Congress will have after the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, the most will be from the Congress-ruled states of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and BJP-held Karnataka. In the Rajya Sabha, the Congress party will have 5-5 members from Rajasthan and Karnataka, 4 from Chhattisgarh, 3-3 from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat and two each from West Bengal and Haryana. Along with this, there will be one member each from Bihar, Kerala and Jharkhand.
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