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| Two-third majority in LS in 2019, full majority in RS in 2019 | | BJP-led NDA forging ahead | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 27: On May 23, the BJP led NDA won 353 Lok Sabha seats. BJP alone returned 303 members to the 543-member house. The remaining 50 seats were won by the BJP allies. All in all, the BJP and its allies secured two-third majority in the lower House. In 2014, the BJP had won 282 and its allies 54.
After wining the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP is thinking in terms of becoming the majority party in the Rajya Sabha as well. Reports from Delhi say, "the BJP and the NDA led by it are looking to overcome a minority status in the upper house of parliament - something that scotched the previous NDA government's efforts to push through key laws".
The NDA's majority in the Rajya Sabha would help it pass legislations in Parliament, something that proved a major hurdle in recent years.
Unlike the lower house MPs who are elected directly by the people from the territorial constituencies, MPs in the Rajya Sabha, also called Upper House and House of Elders, are elected by the MLAs of a state. The more the number of MLAs a party has, the brighter its chances to send more MPs to the upper house. Not just this, a Rajya Sabha MP has a term of six years while his counterpart in the Lok Sabha faces election every five years.
In 2018, the BJP created a history of sorts by overtaking the Congress in the Rajya Sabha for the first time. At present, the total number of NDA MPs in the upper house is 101 in the 245-member House. Besides, it also enjoys the support of three nominated members, Swapan Dasgupta, Mary Kom and Narendra Jadhav and at least three independent MPs, taking the total tally to 107. KTS Tulsi, a UPA-nominated member, will retire early next year. It will give the NDA a chance to appoint a nominee of its choice.
Reports suggest that "by November 2020, the NDA government will secure another 19 seats from as many as 14 states, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, helping it go past the halfway mark of 123 and get 125 seats, making it the first government to reach majority in the upper house in nearly 15 years". Reports further say that "most of its seats will come from Uttar Pradesh where it has 325 MLAs in the 403-member assembly" and that "it will also gain 6 seats in Tamil Nadu thanks to its new ally the AIADMK, three in Assam, two in Rajasthan and perhaps one in Odisha - the last one with the help of a friendly party, the BJD".
"The NDA will also gain one seat each in Karnataka, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand while it will lose seats in states such as Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh," reports say, adding that "a big victory in the Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand assembly polls later this year can further bolster the BJP-led NDA's lead in the Upper House of Parliament by November 2020". If the NDA reaches the majority mark in 2020, it will get nearly four years in the Rajya Sabha to further its legislative agenda.
Between now and November 2020, 75 Rajya Sabha seats will be up for election. |
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