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The polling for the 2 seats of Rajya Sabha from Haryana was held successful Chandigarh connected Monday (March 16, 2026) successful the Haryana State Assembly, adjacent arsenic the counting has been delayed aft the BJP and the Congress filed abstracted complaints.
The counting was to statesman astatine 5 P.M., but it was yet to statesman till the filing of this report.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Chief Election Commissioner, saying determination was an effort astatine interference with the ongoing predetermination to the Rajya Sabha successful Haryana.
In the letter, Mr. Kharge, said “There is simply a wide effort to interfere with the integrity of the predetermination and it indispensable beryllium stopped - redressed by the ECI immediately. Furthermore, nary disqualification of our morganatic voters - votes formed tin beryllium allowed successful what is intelligibly a transparent effort to taint/derail the process.”
“Given the clip delicate quality of the matter, we petition clip instantly for a delegation led by Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi on with elder leaders from the enactment to conscionable your bully aforesaid earlier the declaration of the results,” helium added.
The BJP had filed a ailment astir a breach of secrecy successful the votes of 2 Congress MLAs, including Bharat Singh Beniwal, MLA from Ellenabad, and Parmvir Singh, MLA from Tohana, the Congress enactment registered a ailment with the returning serviceman astir a breach of secrecy successful the ballot of Cabinet Minister Anil Vij.
In the 90-member Haryana Assembly, 88 MLAs formed their votes. The 2 MLAs of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), including Arjun Chautala and Aditya Devilal stayed distant from voting. With 88 votes polled, the winning quota came down to 30 votes
For Haryana’s 2 vacant Rajya Sabha seats, 3 candidates are successful the fray. The Congress enactment had fielded Karmavir Singh Boudh, portion the BJP nominated Sanjay Bhatia. The 3rd campaigner is Satish Nandal arsenic an Independent.
The ruling BJP has 48 MLAs, Congress has 37, the Indian National Lok Dal has 2 MLAs and 3 legislators are Independents successful the 90-member Haryana Assembly.
