By Admin 
After the defeat in the West Bengal assembly elections, three Rajya Sabha MPs of Trinamool Congress had resigned. The Election Commission has announced elections on these seats. Voting on these three seats will be held on July 24.
According to ECI, voting on these seats will be held on July 24 from 9 am to 4 pm and counting of votes will be done on the same day at 5 pm. As per the election schedule, notification will be issued on July 7, while the last date for filing nominations has been fixed as July 14. Nomination papers will be scrutinized on 15th July and candidates will be able to withdraw their names till 17th July. The election process will be completed by July 27.
What is the mathematics of Rajya Sabha seats in Bengal?
In West Bengal, BJP has 207 assembly seats, Trinamool Congress has 80, Congress, Humayun Kabir’s party has two and CPI-AISF have one seat each. TMC is divided into two factions, in such a situation there is every possibility that BJP will easily win all these three seats, after which NDA’s figure in Rajya Sabha will increase to 155.
Shukhendu government was the first to resign
Sukhendu Shekhar Roy, considered close to Mamata Banerjee, was the first Rajya Sabha MP who resigned from the membership of TMC and Parliament on June 8. He had raised questions on corruption in TMC, violence against women and the leadership of Mamata Banerjee. Not only this, in his resignation letter he had mentioned the incident at RG Kar Medical College. His allegation was that the workers who worked hard in the party were sidelined and the tainted ones were promoted.
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Sushmita Dev left the party on June 10
After Sukhendu Shekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev had announced to leave TMC on June 10. Soon after submitting her resignation, Sushmita Dev met Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in Delhi, after which speculations started that she might join BJP and BJP might send her to Rajya Sabha from Assam.
Sushmita Dev became MP for the first time in 2014
Sushmita Dev is a resident of Silchar, Assam and became MP from Silchar on Congress ticket in 2014. Apart from this, Congress had also made her the President of Mahila Congress. Sushmita is the daughter of former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader Santosh Mohan Dev. He left Congress and joined TMC in 2021, after which Mamata Banerjee sent him to Rajya Sabha.
Prakash Chik resigned on June 11
Prakash Chik Baraik was the third Rajya Sabha MP after Shukhendu Shekhar and Sushmita Dev to resign from TMC. However, in his resignation he neither made any allegations against Mamata Banerjee nor TMC.
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