New Delhi [India], February 27 (HBTV): The Rajya Sabha polls for 15 seats across three states were marked by cross-voting with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning 10 seats, the Congress three, and the Samajwadi Party (SP) two seats.           

The BJP was the main gainer having won an additional seat in Uttar Pradesh and bagging one in Himachal Pradesh. 

However, the biggest surprise came from Himachal Pradesh where Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi lost after six MLAs from the ruling Congress cross-voted in the election. The BJP's Harsh Vardhan emerged victorious with the result pushing the over one-year-old Congress government to the brink.          

BJP leaders said the Congress has lost the majority in the assembly but Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said its strength can be tested on the floor of the assembly.  

The BJP won eight seats in the Rajya Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh and the SP, which had put up three candidates, could win two seats.  

The results in Karnataka were on expected lines with Congress, which is in power in the state, winning three seats and the BJP one. Congress candidates got more votes than the party's numbers in the assembly. The BJP-JDS candidate Kupendra Reddy lost the elections. BJP MLA ST Somashekar voted in favor of the Congress.