The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has created history by crossing the double digit mark by having 101 seats in the 245-member Rajya Sabha.
The polls for 13 seats of Rajya Sabha were held on March 31 last where the BJP made a record.
The BJP occupied 97 seats before the polling, on winning one seat each in Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland and Assam has put the party into the 100 seats club.
After 1988, the BJP is the only party that has crossed 100 seats in the Upper House.
Presently the Congress has 30 seats in the Rajya Sabha, Davida Munnetra Kazghagam has 10 seats, Trinamool Congress has 13 seats, Samajwadi Party has 5 seats and Bahujan Samaj Party has 3 seats.
The BJP was having 47 seats before 2014, and gradually the seats increased after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed the office in 2014.
BJP for last time had 100 or more seats in the Rajya Sabha was in 1990 while then ruling Congress had 108 members. Thereafter there was decline in the number of seats of the Congress and it continue to decline after losing power in states where it ruled. At the Center the Congress formed government in coalition till 2014 after the BJP came to power.
The polls for around 52 more seats will be held soon and the BJP will be working strategies to won seats in states like Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan.
In June 2022, three seats in Madhya Pradesh is going to get vacant.
The BJP has won the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and it is expected to gain from their and won atleast ten seats out of 13 expected vacancies in future. Out of the 13 retiring Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh, five are from the BJP.
