Today is the first day of voting in four states for the Rajya Sabha election of 2022.

On Friday, elections for 16 Rajya Sabha seats will be held in four states: Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Haryana. The polls will open at 9 a.m. and close at 4 p.m., with the counting of votes beginning at 5 p.m.

The elections for 16 Rajya Sabha seats take place ahead of the July election for the next President of India.

Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, as well as Congress candidates Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, and Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, are all running in the Rajya Sabha elections on June 10.

Last Friday, 41 candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, and Telangana were elected unopposed to 57 Rajya Sabha seats.

Because the number of candidates outnumbers the number of seats, voting for 16 Rajya Sabha seats will take place on Wednesday.