The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expressed confidence that it will win nine Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. MLAs in Uttar Pradesh are voting to fill up 10 Rajya Sabha seats today. The BJP, which has a three-fourths majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, has enough numbers to get candidates election on eight Rajya Sabha seats. The Samajwadi Party is likely to win a Rajya Sabha seat as well while the final seat will see a close contest between the BJP and the Bahujan Samaj Party. It is this contest with the BSP that the BJP says it is confident of winning. A BSP MLA has already confirmed that he cross-voted in favour of the BJP. Anil Singh, the BSP MLA in question, told reporters, I have voted for BJP, I don't know about the rest. While results for the Rajya Sabha elections will be out only later this evening, the BJP has said it is certain of winning nine Rajya Sabha seats. BJP will win all the nine Rajya Sabha seats where we have fielded our candidates. Nine more BJP candidates will make entry to Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh this time, UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. Along with Uttar Pradesh, Rajya Sabha elections are also being held in Kerala (1 seat), Chhattisgarh (1), Jharkhand (2), Telangana (3), Karnataka (4), and West Bengal (5).