Overview
- The Congress announced seven Rajya Sabha nominees and filed key papers this week, with party president Mallikarjun Kharge submitting his nomination from Karnataka in a high-profile show of unity.
- In Maharashtra the state Congress suspended and expelled two local candidates on June 5 after they withdrew Legislative Council nominations, actions that cleared the way for several Mahayuti alliance candidates to be declared elected unopposed.
- Congress leaders in Madhya Pradesh held a legislative party meeting on June 6 and publicly pledged unified support for Meenakshi Natarajan, countering BJP talk of cross-voting and extra candidates that could have altered the three-seat contest.
- In Jharkhand the JMM named Baidyanath Ram for one seat while Congress stuck with Pranav Jha, prompting senior Congress envoys to meet Chief Minister Hemant Soren to defuse friction and try to preserve the ruling alliance’s arithmetic.
- A separate developing risk to opposition cohesion comes from reports that the Trinamool Congress parliamentary group is fracturing, a move that, if it produces defections or a formal split, could shift voting dynamics in the Rajya Sabha and for INDIA bloc strategy.