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Many results have been declared so far in the elections held on 28 Legislative Council seats in four states.
Elections have been held on a total of 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh. Of these, BJP has won four seats and Samajwadi Party (SP) has won two seats. BJP is leading on one seat and SP is leading on three seats, while an independent candidate is leading on one seat. Counting of votes continues.
BJP is ahead on the seats of Gorakhpur Teacher and Agra Graduate Constituency. Whereas, SP is leading in Varanasi Graduate, Agra Teacher, Lucknow Graduate and Jhansi Graduate constituencies.
BJP has already won the seats of Meerut Teacher, Meerut Graduate, Bareilly Teacher and Lucknow Teacher constituencies.
BJP's Hari Singh Dhillon won from Bareilly-Moradabad teachers constituency. SP candidates are leading in Agra teachers constituency. Meanwhile, both the parties accused each other regarding the vote counting process.
BJP won the Meerut graduate and teacher constituencies through Dinesh Kumar Goyal and Srichand Sharma respectively. Counting of votes continued in the remaining seats of the state amid tight security.
Varanasi is the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The results of five out of 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh have been declared. BJP has won four seats, while Samajwadi Party (SP) has won one seat.
Bihar
Different parties have won the four declared seats of teacher constituencies in Bihar. Patna seat has been won by RJD, Tirhut seat by BJP and Darbhanga seat by Jan Suraj Party. BJP's rebel independent candidate has won the Saran seat. The results of the remaining four graduate constituencies are yet to be declared.
The results of five out of eight Legislative Council seats in Bihar have been declared. According to the latest information, BJP, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), JDU, Jan Suraj Party (JSP) and an independent candidate have won one seat each.
RJD defeated five-time BJP MLC Naval Kishore Yadav in Patna teachers constituency. Meanwhile, in Darbhanga teachers constituency, Jan Suraj Party candidate Suresh Rai defeated Congress leader and former Bihar Congress president Madan Mohan Jha.
In Patna graduates constituency, Neeraj Kumar of Janata Dal United (JDU) defeated Dilip Rai of RJD. Here Anuj Singh of Jan Suraj Party was in third place. Bahubali MLA Anant Singh had supported Anuj Singh. JDU had expelled Anant Singh from the party by taking disciplinary action.
Reacting to Anuj Singh's defeat, Anant Singh said on Wednesday, "Anuj Singh has lost. Now it does not matter whether he is in third or fourth position. The counting of votes has been completed. It is clear that he has lost. The public is the master, he is like God. The one whom the public elects, wins and the one whom it does not elect, he loses."
On his recent expulsion from the party and his relations with the party leadership, he said, "The party is supreme. Whatever happens, it is the party's decision. I have not made any contribution to the party on the basis of which I can stake my claim on it..."
In Bihar's Tirhut teachers constituency, BJP candidate Narendra Prasad Singh defeated sitting CPI MLC Sanjay Singh. Independent candidate Bhushan Kumar Jha stood second. Suresh Rai of Jan Suraj Party also defeated Congress leader and former Bihar Congress president Madan Mohan Jha in Darbhanga teachers constituency. This is being seen as another setback for Congress.
karnataka
In a major blow to the ruling Congress and Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, the BJP-led NDA won all four seats of the Karnataka Legislative Council for which voting was held on October 23.
While counting of votes continued till late Tuesday night, NDA candidates won in both the teachers' constituencies, while its candidates were leading in the two graduates' constituencies also.
NDA had fielded three candidates from BJP and one candidate from Janata Dal (Secular) i.e. JD(S) in the elections.
In a shock to the Congress, BJP-Janata Dal (Secular) alliance candidate AP Ranganath defeated sitting MLC Puttanna in Bengaluru teachers constituency.
81.98 percent voting was recorded on this seat. At the same time, in the election of North-East Teachers Constituency of Karnataka Legislative Council, NDA candidate Shashilji Namoshi defeated Congress's Sharanappa Mattur.
Maharashtra
In Maharashtra, the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) contested all five seats of the Legislative Council. A total of 182 candidates were in the fray for these seats.
BJP has 35 MLCs in the 78-member Legislative Council. After this, there are 12 members of Shiv Sena and 10 members of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) have five members each, while Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) i.e. NCP (SP) has two members.
The five seats include three graduate constituencies and two teacher constituencies. The final results of the five seats have not come yet. As per the trends so far, BJP is leading on two seats, Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena on one and Sharad Pawar's NCP is leading on two seats.
States which have Legislative Council
What is MLC?
MLC (Member of Legislative Council) is a member of the upper house of the state, i.e. Legislative Council. The age of the candidate should be at least 30 years and he should be a citizen of India.
The tenure is of six years. Every two years one-third of the members retire and the House is never dissolved. The Council can have a maximum number of members equal to one-third of the Legislative Assembly and never less than 40.
How important is MLC?
The Legislative Council debates bills and suggests changes. The law can only be postponed, not stopped. An ordinary bill can be postponed for a maximum of four months. A finance bill can be postponed for 14 days but it does not have the right to amend it. The Legislative Council cannot remove the state government.
The government is answerable only to the Legislative Assembly. Graduates, teachers and members of local bodies get their representatives through the Legislative Council.
Leaders who are not MLAs can get seats in the House through the Council. Nitish Kumar, Yogi Adityanath and Uddhav Thackeray had come through this route. Many experts consider it expensive and unnecessary. For this reason only six states have Legislative Council.
