As many as 45 of the 61 newly-elected Rajya Sabha MPs took oath on Wednesday. The rest will take oath when the monsoon session starts, possibly in the last week of August.
The Rajya Sabha’s total strength is 245. With only three vacancies, the Rajya Sabha is now nearly at its full strength.
At 112-seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a mere 10-seats short of the majority mark.
If the trend of BJP increasing its tally continues, the NDA can hope to touch the majority mark by November when 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh and one from Uttarakhand