India, Feb. 5 -- Six seats in Maharashtra are among the 56 Rajya Sabha seats for which elections will be held on February 27. The members of the legislative assembly will vote for the Rajya Sabha candidates. The members from Maharashtra whose terms will end are union minister Narayan Rane, V Murlidharan, Prakash Javdekar (all BJP), Anil Desai (Shiv Sena), Kumar Ketkar (Congress) and Vandana Chavan (NCP). Considering the current strength of the parties in the assembly, BJP can easily send three nominees, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Congress can get one member elected each. Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has more than 40 legislators and can get one candidate elected. However, since neither Election Commission of India (ECI) nor Assembly Speaker has given a verdict on the NCP split, it is not clear whose whip would be applicable for the legislators to follow. Ajit Pawar's colleagues are confident that the ECI ruling will come before the election which would make things easier....