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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Friday (February 13, 2026) exuded assurance that the enactment would nonstop 3 retired of 4 seats from the Odisha quota to Rajya Sabha adjacent month.
The tenure of four Rajya Sabha members of Odisha is coming to an extremity connected April 2 this year. However, the BJP does not person the requisite numbers successful the State Assembly to guarantee the predetermination of a 3rd campaigner to the Upper House of Parliament.
In the 147-member Odisha Legislative Assembly, the BJP has 79 MLAs, followed by the Biju Janata Dal with 50, the Congress with 14, 1 subordinate from the CPI(M), and 3 independents. The BJP presently enjoys the enactment of each 3 Independent MLAs.
A campaigner requires first-preference votes of 31 MLAs to unafraid predetermination to the Rajya Sabha. Given the contiguous spot successful the Assembly, the BJP and the BJD tin comfortably guarantee the predetermination of 2 and 1 candidates, respectively. It requires governmental manoeuvring by either BJP oregon BJD to guarantee the predetermination of their candidate.
Vijay Singh Tomar, in-charge of BJP enactment affairs for Odisha, connected Friday (February 13, 2026) told reporters, “we are assured of sending 3 Rajya Sabha members from Odisha. Party’s Parliamentary Committee volition instrumentality a telephone arsenic to who would beryllium their candidates.”
There are 10 Rajya Sabha MPs from Odisha — 7 from the BJD and 3 from the BJP. The tenure of BJD MPs Niranjan Bishi and Muzibulla Khan and BJP MPs Mamata Mohanta and Sujeet Kumar volition extremity connected April 2.
It is to beryllium noted that Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee President Bhakta Charan Das had announced to conscionable erstwhile Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik for a treatment to jointly nonstop a idiosyncratic of eminence to Rajya Sabha.
