The NDA’s stupendous victory in the Bihar assembly polls will help it bag all Rajya Sabha seats from the state in the coming years, while the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) will have no representation in the upper house when the next assembly elections are held there.

The RJD currently has five seats in the Rajya Sabha and the Congress has one seat, out of a total of 16 Rajya Sabha seats from Bihar.

With the next round of Rajya Sabha polls slated early next year, when the tenure of two RJD MPs - Prem Chand Gupta and A D Singh—will end, the numbers are stacked in favour of the NDA, allowing the ruling alliance to wrest these seats.

The tenure of the NDA members—Harivansh, Ram Nath Thakur (both JDU) and Upendra Kushwaha (RLM) -- will also end on April 9, 2026.

For winning a seat in the next

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