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All 5 candidates of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) connected Monday (March 16, 2026) secured triumph in the biennial predetermination to the Rajya Sabha aft 4 MLAs of Mahagathbandhan did not crook up for the voting.
All 202 MLAs of the NDA formed their votes, whereas lone 37 MLAs from the Mahagathbandhan voted.
The 5 candidates who secured victory, 2 each from Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal-(United), included BJP’s President Nitin Nabin and Shivesh Kumar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Ramnath Thakur. Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) President and erstwhile Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha besides secured victory.
Out of six, 3 Congress MLAs who skipped the voting were Manohar Prasad Singh (Manihari), Surendra Prasad (Valimikinagar) and Manoj Bishwas (Forbesganj). Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA from Dhaka Assembly constituency Faisal Rahman besides skipped the voting.
There was a contention for the 5th spot betwixt Shivesh Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Amarendra Dhari Singh. As per the calculation, determination was a request of 41 votes to triumph a seat, from the NDA side, Mr. Shivesh got 38 votes whereas Mr.Singh got 37 votes.
Sharing the information, Bihar BJP State President Sanjay Saraogi, “All our 5 candidates person secured the victory. I congratulate everyone.”
According to the Assembly Secretariat, Nitish Kumar and Nitin Nabin each secured 44 votes whereas Ramnath Thakur and Upendra Kushwaha each got 42 votes. In the archetypal penchant round, BJP campaigner Shivesh Ram received 30 votes.
Rajya Sabha follows a strategy called the Proportional Representation by means of a Single Transferable Vote (STV).
In this system, alternatively of voting for conscionable a azygous candidate, MLAs get a ballot insubstantial with the names of each the candidates. They indispensable past fertile them successful bid of their preference, i.e. archetypal choice, 2nd prime and truthful on.
A campaigner doesn’t request the astir votes to win. They conscionable request to scope a circumstantial “quota”. This fig is calculated based connected the full fig of MLAs voting and the fig of seats available.
If a victor gets much votes than the quota, their votes are transferred to the “second choice.”
This is what happened erstwhile Shivesh Kumar defeated the RJD’s campaigner Mr. Singh successful 2nd choice.
Reacting to the victory, BJP person and Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha launched a scathing onslaught connected RJD and Congress, saying that some parties are insulting antiauthoritarian values.
He alleged that keeping legislators locked up successful a edifice is akin to treating them arsenic “bonded laborers”. Mr. Sinha asserted that not trusting their ain colleagues and keeping them successful captivity is portion of RJD’s aged governmental culture.
Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) President Upendra Kushwaha besides took a excavation astatine the RJD implicit its MLA skipping the voting.
“You volition find, aft immoderate time, the full RJD enactment volition vanish,”Mr. Kushwaha said.
Bihar Congress President Rajesh Ram accused BJP of utilizing the investigating agencies against its 3 MLAs owed to which they did not crook up to vote.
RJD MLA Kumar Sarvjeet alleged that BJP utilized the wealth powerfulness to triumph the election.
