Piyush SrivastavaBSP MLAs leave after a meeting on Rajya Sabha polls at party office in Lucknow on Thursday. As things stand now, the BJP, with 325 MLAs, can elect eight members to the Rajya Sabha comfortably. Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, party president Akhilesh Yadav, senior leaders Shivpal Singh Yadav and Azam Khan coming out after meeting on eve of Rajya Sabha poll in Lucknow on Thursday.PTI pictureThe fight is over the 10th seat, for which the contenders are Ambedkar and the BJP's Anil Agrawal. The Samajwadi Party, which has 47 MLAs, has said it will transfer nine spare votes to the BSP. The Nishad Party had allied with the Samajwadi Party in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha bypoll.

Source: The Telegraph March 22, 2018 21:00 UTC