Rajasthan Congress MLAs were moved from Udaipur to Jaipur ahead of the voting for the Rajya Sabha elections that are slated to be held on Friday and party leaders are hoping to secure three seats in the Upper House of the parliament.
Despite numbers not in its favour, Oppn likely to put up joint candidate for presidential poll
Some opposition parties are of the view that they should not give a walkover to the ruling dispensation but put up a fight, the sources said. CPI Rajya Sabha member Binoy Viswam said the Congress had reached out to him to discuss a "common candidate".
Chemistry in Opposition camp makes equation easy for NDA
Of the estimated 10,86,431 combined value of the electoral collegium for the Presidential elections, the NDA requires a little less than 2% additional votes to make its nominee cross the half-way mark. Yet, the on-paper 'edge' the 'combined opposition' has on 'maths' may not hold the 'chemistry' test required to make 'all the opposition parties' join hands for a combined candidate against the NDA nominee. Such unity has so far not happened even in Parliament.
Special pen to mark vote in President election
Polling will take in Parliament House here and in state legislative assemblies. Elected members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and elected MLAs are entitled to vote. Nominated MPs and MLAs and members of legislative councils cannot vote to elect the President.