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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is yet to announce its candidate for the vice-presidential election, but knows that its increased numbers in the Rajya Sabha by April 2018 will mean the successor to M Hamid Ansari will have to face a less obstructionist House of Elders.
When the attention is mostly on whether or not Communist Party of India (Marxist) chief Sitaram Yechury would return for a third term and if at all the Samajwadi Party and Congress come together to help Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati get re-elected to the Rajya Sabha, BJP is busy counting its improved numbers
