{"id":503150,"date":"2024-02-27T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T06:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=503150"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:26:00","slug":"manoj-kumar-pandey-resign-samajwadi-party-chief-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/manoj-kumar-pandey-resign-samajwadi-party-chief-whip\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajya Sabha election: Samajwadi Party leader Manoj Kumar Pandey steps down as Chief Whip, voting underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the midst of voting for the Rajya Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party leader and MLA Manoj Kumar Pandey resigned from his position as the party&#8217;s chief whip in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday.<br><br>His resignation from the position was announced barely one day after eight Samajwadi Party MLAs failed to show up for a meeting that the party Chief\u00a0Akhilesh Yadav\u00a0had called.<br><br>Eight BJP candidates and three Samajwadi Party candidates have applied for the\u00a010 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh as the voting has begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Samajwadi Party MLA and leader Manoj Kumar Pandey resigns from the post of Samajwadi Party Chief Whip. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ib0hp9ewnf\">pic.twitter.com\/ib0hp9ewnf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1762333542833328143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The main opposition SP and the ruling BJP both have enough members to send seven and three members to the Rajya Sabha, respectively, without opposition. However, since the BJP is fielding an eighth candidate, a competitive race is expected in one of the seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results will be announced by the end of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BJP has put up seven other candidates which includes,\u00a0former Union minister RPN Singh,\u00a0former MP Chaudhary Tejveer Singh,\u00a0general secretary of the party&#8217;s Uttar Pradesh unit Amarpal Maurya,\u00a0former state minister Sangeeta Balwant (Bind); former MLA Sadhna Singh,\u00a0and former\u00a0Agra mayor\u00a0Naveen Jain.<br><br>Actor-turned-MP Jaya Bachchan, former IAS officer Alok Ranjan, and Dalit activist Ramji Lal Suman are the candidates officially nominated by the Samajwadi Party.<br><br>In Uttar Pradesh, a candidate needs around 37 first-preference votes to be elected to the Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting will end at 4 p.m., and counting will start at 5 p.m.<br><br>With 252 and 108 members, respectively, the BJP and the SP have the majority of seats in the 403-member state assembly. The SP&#8217;s alliance partner, the Congress, holds two seats.<br><br>Thirteen seats are held by the BJP ally Apna Dal (Sonelal), six by the NISHAD Party, nine by the RLD, six by the SBSP, two by Jansatta Dal Loktantrik, and one by the BSP. There are presently four open seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samajwadi Party MLA Manoj Kumar Pandey on Tuesday resigned from the post of party chief whip amid the voting for 10 Rajya Sabha seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":503152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[162562,1497,125714],"tags":[162133,132719,84],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/27121134\/ezgif-1-ed68f5b063-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503150"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=503150"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=503150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->