Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, will also function on weekends i.e. on March 28 and 29. The reason for this is that some members had requested that meetings should not be held in the House on March 19-20 due to festivals. Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan gave this information to the members on Monday.
Navratri, Gudi Padwa will be holiday
Earlier, during the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee held on March 11, 2026, some members had suggested that in view of the many festivals of Navratri, Gudi Padwa, Ramzan etc. starting from March 19, it would not be appropriate to organize the meetings of the House.
The meetings of March 19 and 20 were cancelled, what else did the Chairman say?
On this, Chairman CP Radhakrishnan said, ‘I want to inform the members that the government has positively considered the request made in this regard. Only after this, the House meetings scheduled for Thursday, March 19, 2026 and Friday, March 20, 2026 are cancelled.
Apart from this, the Chairman has also given instructions to compensate for the wastage of time. He has said, ‘The House will instead sit on Saturday, March 28, 2026 and Sunday, March 29, 2026. Members please take cognizance of this.
Voting continues in the House on 11 seats of Rajya Sabha
Here, on Monday i.e. today, voting is taking place on 11 seats in Rajya Sabha. These include Rajya Sabha seats of Bihar, Odisha and Haryana. A very interesting contest is expected in these 3 states. Counting of votes will be done after 5 pm. Its result is also expected to be declared today.
Let us tell you that elections were to be held on 37 seats in Rajya Sabha. But candidates have been elected unopposed in seven states. These include 5 seats in Bengal, 7 in Maharashtra, 6 in Tamil Nadu, 4 in Odisha, 3 in Assam, 2 and 2 each in Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Telangana and Himachal Pradesh.
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