Lucknow, June 18 -- Amid the buzz about early Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, biennial elections for 10 Rajya Sabha seats and 21 Legislative Council seats falling vacant at the year-end and early next year are also in focus.

The term of 10 Rajya Sabha members from UP ends on November 25 and eight of them belong to the BJP - Brij Lal, Dinesh Sharma, Geeta Shakya, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Seema Dwivedi, Neeraj Shekhar, Arun Singh and BL Verma. Ram Gopal Yadav represents the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Ramji Lal Gautam the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Rajya Sabha members are chosen by elected members of the state assembly.

In the 403-member UP assembly, the BJP and its allies have 290 MLAs, the SP has 102 MLAs, the Congress two, the BSP...