Political activity set to pick up in Karnataka with notification of elections to four Rajya Sabha seats

Key points

• Political activity in the ruling Congress and opposition BJP is likely to intensify in the coming days with the notification of elections for four seats in the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka by the Election Commission of India on May 22. The elections will be held on June 18. The Congress is expected to win three seats while the BJP is likely to get one seat.
• The elections have been necessitated by the completion of the term of senior leaders Prime Minister H.D.
• Deve Gowda JD(S), Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge (Congress), and BJP members K.
• Narayana and Iranna Kadadi.
• As many as 24 seats, including four from Karnataka, from 10 States across the country are falling vacant.