The congress suffered a major upset in himachal pradesh at the hands of the bjp in the rajya sabha polls which were marred by cross-voting in all the 3 states though it won 3 seats in karnataka while in uttar pradesh bjp won 8 seats and samajwadi party 2 seats. samajwadi party candidate alok ranjan conceded defeat in the rajya sabha election in uttar pradesh. in karnataka, ajay maken, g c chandrasekhar and syed naseer hussain, all from the congress, and narayansa k bhandage (bjp) got elected to the upper ho