By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: With ECI announced bye election to Rajya Sabha vacancy arising out of resignation of Cuttack Mayor Subash Chandra Singh on June 13, lobby has started mounting in Odisha for 4 Rajya Sabha seats, which included earlier 3 seats of Dr Sasmit Patra, N Bhaskar Rao and Prasanna Acharya.
The BJD is set to win all the 4 seats with a strength of 113 in an assembly of 147. The BJP and Congress with 22 and 9 seats in the Assembly do not have the numbers to win a seat.
Polls to Rajya Sabha vacancies including 3 from Odisha will be held on June 10 and voting for 4th seat will be on June 13.
Of the 4 seats, Dr Sasmit Patra may get a second chance while Subash Singh already posted as Cuttack Mayor with chance looking grim for Prasanna Acharya and N Bhaskar Rao for re-election, sources said.
