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<strong>New Delhi: The election of Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha took place on Thursday and the house elected NDA nominee Harivansh Narayan Singh elected with majority of 125 votes. UPA candidate </strong><strong>BK Hariprasad on the other hand bagged 98 votes.</strong> Though neither Bharatiya Janta Party, nor Congress held a majority in the house, the NDA won by seeking help from various other parties. Immediately after the election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Harivansh Narayan Singh and lauded him in the house. Even Biju Janata Dal President and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday declared support for them. “Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had spoken to me and our party will support the JD(U) candidate in the Rajya Sabha's deputy chairman election”, Patnaik told reporters on his return from Mumbai. <strong>LATEST UPDATES: </strong> <ul> <li>Working closely with Chandra Shekhar Ji, Harivansh Ji knew in advance that Chandra Shekhar Ji would resign. However, he did not let his own paper have access to this news. This shows his commitment to ethics and public service: PM</li> <li>PM Modi congratulates Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh in Rajya Sabha</li> </ul> <a href="https://static.abplive.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/09020026/RSTV-Modi-.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-739875" src="https://ift.tt/2OTKwfu" alt="" width="468" height="374" /></a> <ul> <li>Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad congratulates newly elected Deputy Chairman of upper house of the parliament</li> <li>NDA candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh attains majority, elected as Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha with 125 votes</li> <li>122 votes in favour of NDA nominee Harivansh, 98 votes in favour of UPA candidate BK Hariprasad in second round of voting</li> <li>Voting underway in RS for the election of Deputy chairman</li> </ul> <a href="https://static.abplive.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/09020026/RSTV-1120am.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-739846" src="https://ift.tt/2vtfALa" alt="" width="478" height="382" /></a> <ul> <li>Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad says "NDA will have decisive victory"</li> </ul> <a href="https://static.abplive.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/09020026/Parliament-10am-2.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-739812" src="https://ift.tt/2ATZvmK" alt="" width="503" height="377" /></a> <ul> <li>After promising vote to UPA, YSR Congress to boycott voting for Rajya Sabha deputy chairman election</li> </ul> <code></code> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">We have decided to abstain from voting for Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman elections. Both Congress and BJP have not fulfilled the promises made to Andhra Pradesh: V. Vijayasai Reddy,YSR Congress MP <a href="https://t.co/iF6rpVzICW">pic.twitter.com/iF6rpVzICW</a></p> — ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1027423538351763457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2018</a></blockquote> <ul> <li>UPA candidate for Rajya Sabha deputy chairman election BK Hariprasad says "Confident of victory, we have required numbers"</li> <li>AAP to boycott the election, "Rahul Gandhi should have called and asked us for support" says AAP Leader Sanjay Singh</li> <li>2 PDP MPs to boycott voting</li> </ul> The BJD will support the JD(U) since the two parties have emerged from the Jay Prakash Narayan movement, while the Congress candidate was the AICC in-charge of Odisha and vitriolic in his statements against the BJD, Patnaik said. <code><iframe class="vidfyVideo" style="border: 0px;" src="https://ift.tt/2vvUsEd" width="631" height="381" scrolling="no"></iframe></code> The numbers, therefore, appear stacked in favour of the ruling coalition which claims the support of 126 members in the Upper House, which has an effective strength of 244 MPs. While Harivansh is a first-time MP of the JD-U, Hariprasad is a three-time parliamentarian of the Congress. The BJD has nine MPs in the Upper House.

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