Kolkata, Jun 27 (IANS): Polls for seven Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal will be held on July 24
Out of the seven, six seats will fall vacant due to the end of the tenure of the sitting members while there will be a by-election for one seat.
The six Rajya Sabha members whose tenure is ending are Derek O’Brien, Dola Sen, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Shanta Chhetri, and Sushmita Dev of Trinamool Congress and Pradip Bhattacharya of Congress.
Meanwhile, there will be a by-election for the seat held by former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro, who resigned both from his Parliament as well as from the post of Trinamool’s national Vice President in April this year.
As per the make-up of the assembly, the ruling Trinamool is slated to capture six out of seven seats, whereas BJP is slated to bag one.