New Delhi, June 04: Forty-one candidates across party lines from 11 states were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha on Friday. Of all the winners 14 were from the BJP, four each from Congress and YSR Congress. While three each were elected from DMK and BJD, two each from AAP, RJD, TRS, and AIADMK. One candidate each from JMM, JDU, SP, and RLD was also elected to the upper house besides Independent Kapil Sibal.
P Chidambaram and Rajeev Shukla of the Congress, BJP’s Sumitra Valmiki and Kavita Patidar, former Congress leader Kapil Sibal, RJD’s Misa Bharti and Jayant Chaudhary of the RLD were also some of the names to be elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha.
Elections were scheduled to be held on June 10 to fill 57 Rajya Sabha seats from 15 states that will be falling vacant due to the retirement of members on different dates between June and August. Friday was the last date for the withdrawal.
Of the 41 elected candidates, 11 candidates are from Uttar Pradesh, six from Tamil Nadu, five from Bihar, four from Andhra Pradesh, three from Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha, tow each from Chattisgarh, Punjab, Telangana, and Jharkhand, and one from Uttarkhand, respectively.
The winners from the state are Jayant Chaudhary (RLD), Javed Ali Khan (SP), Darshana Singh, Babu Ram Nishad, Mithilesh Kumar, Radha Mohan Dal Agarwal, K Laxman, Laxmikant Bajpai, Surendra Singh Nagar, Sangeeta Yadav (all BJP). The winners from Tamil Nadu are the ruling DMK’s S Kalyanasundaram, R Girirajan and KRN Rajesh Kumar, AIADMK’s C Ve Shanmugam, and R Dharmar and Congress’s Chidambaram. In the Upper House, the DMK’s current strength of 10 would continue to be unaltered and AIADMK representation is set to slide to 4 MPs from 5 members. With Chidambaram’s election, the Congress party would have a member from Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha after a long gap. In 2016, Chidambaram was elected to the RS from Maharashtra and his term ends on July 4.
On June 10, elections will now be held for six seats in Maharashtra, four each in Rajasthan and Karnataka, and two in Haryana. Results will be declared the same day.
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