Chandigarh, March 16 -- Voting for the Rajya Sabha elections has been halted due to objections to two Congress votes. BJP's Gaurav Gautam and Kishan Bedi have objected to both votes. Congress has also objected to Minister Anil Vij's vote.

The counting has been halted for over an hour. Gaurav Gautam is also the polling agent for the BJP, and Kishan Bedi is the election agent for the BJP.

On the counting for the Rajya Sabha elections being halted, Leader of the Opposition in the Haryana Assembly and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda says, "Permission needs to be taken from the Election Commission of India before starting the counting..."

On the Rajya Sabha elections, Haryana BJP President Mohan Lal Badoli said, "It seems some miracle...