NEW DELHI: The BJP-led NDA is likely to get majority in Rajya Sabha by November next year which will complete BJP’s domination of Parliament and clear the way for the Narendra Modi government to push some key legislations which have been stalled in the upper House where the numbers favoured the opposition benches in NDA’s first term.At present, NDA has 102 members in Rajya Sabha while Congress-led UPA has 65. Parties not aligned to either block have 73 in the House where support of 123 is needed to cross the half-way mark.Ten seats will fall vacant in 2019 and 72 in 2020. Fifty-five of the 72 seats will fall vacant in April, five in June, one in July and 11 (including 10 from Uttar Pradesh) in November next year.The ruling alliance will have to win the three assembly polls in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand, which are lined up this year as BJP’s defeat in six states —Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh , Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh - have delayed its prospects of getting the magic mark till November next year.Absence of majority prevented the Modi government in its first term to get parliamentary approval for some key legislations like the Triple Talaq bill and amendments to the Citizenship Act.The members may not see two former Prime Ministers among them in Parliament as H D Deve Gowda lost Lok Sabha poll while Manmohan Singh is retiring from Rajya Sabha next month. With Singh’s departure, Congress is set to lose its biggest UPA mascot at a time when the party appears already in the midst of an existential crisis .Singh is currently member from Assam, but Congress cannot retain his seat from the state in upcoming polls for the Upper House on June 7. Besides Singh, another Congress Rajya Sabha member from the state, Santiuse Kujur, will also retire on June 14. Both seats will go to BJP and its ally as Congress does not have the required number in the state assembly.Though eight more Rajya Sabha seats will go to polls this year, it won’t give Congress a chance to send Singh or any other party member to the upper House in 2019 unless it enlists DMK’s support for the former PM for a berth from Tamil Nadu.Six seats will fall vacant in Tamil Nadu in July while one each from Bihar and Odisha will need to be filled this year. Congress doesn’t have enough MLAs in these assemblies to get even a single RS seat.JD(S) or Congress will get chance to send Deve Gowda or Singh (if could not get DMK's support in July) to the upper House only next year which will see polls to fill 72 Rajya Sabha seats from 22 states. Deve Gowda was PM in 1996-97 while Singh held the post for 10 years from 2004 to 2014.Read this story in Bengali