Rajya Sabha polls in 12 seats on October 16

The Election Commission on Tuesday announced elections for 12 Rajya Sabha seats across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal, to be held on October 16.

The polls will be held for 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh and one from Uttarakhand, where the terms of the sitting members in the Upper House end on November 25. A bypoll will be held for one Rajya Sabha seat from West Bengal.

The notification for these polls will be issued on September 29, and nominations can be filed till October 6.

The Bahujan Samaj Party is set to lose its sole Rajya Sabha seat as Ramji Gautam completes his term, leaving the party without any representation in Parliament for the first time since its debut victory in a Lok Sabha seat in 1989.