Rajya Sabha elections:Â As many as forty-one candidates have been elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from 12 states. Marking her first stint within the Upper House of the Parliament, senior Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, BJP chief JP Nadda, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, diamond baron Govindbhai Dholakia and Congress turncoat Ashok Chavan have been among the many leaders who have been declared elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha on Tuesday (February 20).
All six candidates in Maharashtra, six in Bihar, 5 every in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, 4 in Gujarat, three every in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, and Odisha, and one every in Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, and Haryana received with no contest.
It is pertinent to point out that no candidates withdrew their nominations on the final day, leading to 11 contenders for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 5 candidates for 4 seats in Karnataka, and two contestants for one seat in Himachal Pradesh. In Karnataka, the Congress will compete for the third seat, whereas in Himachal Pradesh, it is going to vie for one seat. The Samajwadi Party can even contest the polls to safe the third seat in Uttar Pradesh. Now polling will probably be held for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 4 in Karnataka and one seat in Himachal Pradesh from 9 am to 4 pm and counting will probably be held on the identical day from 5 pm onwards.
The BJP has received the best variety of 20 seats, adopted by the Congress (6), Trinamool Congress (4), YSR Congress (3), RJD (2), BJD (2) and NCP, Shiv Sena, BRS and JD(U) one every.
As there have been no different candidates within the fray on these 41 seats, the respective returning officers declared them winners on the final date of withdrawal of nominations.
Here’s a listing of candidates elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha:
Maharashtra
All six candidates from Maharashtra within the fray for Rajya Sabha elections, together with Congress turncoat Ashok Chavan, have been declared elected unopposed. He had filed his nomination after the Maharashtra chief snapped his ties with Congress and joined the BJP.
The BJP nominees declared elected unopposed embrace Chavan, former MLA Medha Kulkarni, and RSS employee Ajit Gopchade. The nominees of Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party are ex-Congress MP Milind Deora and Praful Patel, respectively. The Congress had nominated Dalit chief Chandrakant Handore, the lone candidate from the Opposition.
Bihar
All six candidates for Rajya Sabha polls in Bihar, three of them from BJP-led NDA and as many belonging to the opposition INDIA bloc, have been declared elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament. In Bihar, JD(U)’s Sanjay Kumar Jha, BJP’s Dharmshila Gupta and Bhim Singh, Manoj Kumar Jha and Sanjay Yadav (each RJD) and Akhilesh Prasad Singh (Congress) have been declared winners.
West Bengal
All 5 candidates for Rajya Sabha elections in West Bengal – 4 from the ruling TMC and one belonging to the BJP – have been declared elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament. The West Bengal meeting secretariat handed over certificates to TMC’s Sushmita Dev, Sagarika Ghose, Mamata Thakur and Md Nadimul Haque. Samik Bhattacharya of the BJP received the fifth Rajya Sabha seat.
Madhya Pradesh
All 5 candidates within the fray for Rajya Sabha polls from Madhya Pradesh have been declared unopposed. Four candidates from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and one from Congress have been within the fray for Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh, all of them have been elected unopposed as members of Rajya Sabha.
Union Minister L Murugan, Valmiki Dham Ashram head Umesh Nath Maharaj, Kisan Morcha’s nationwide vp Banshilal Gurjar, and Madhya Pradesh BJP’s girls wing president Maya Naroliya bagged 4 seats for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh whereas Ashok Singh of the Congress additionally acquired elected unopposed.
Gujarat
BJP president Nadda acquired elected unopposed from Gujarat together with three different BJP leaders Jashwantsinh Parmar, Mayank Nayak and diamond baron Govind Dholakia. The Congress, which has solely 15 MLAs, and different opposition events had most popular not to put up candidates in opposition to the BJP, which has 156 legislators within the 182-member Gujarat meeting.
Andhra Pradesh
The YSR Congress Party secured all three seats in Andhra Pradesh, with G Babu Rao, Y V Subba Reddy, and M Raghunath Reddy rising because the winners.
Telangana
In Telangana, the ruling Congress secured two seats, with Renuka Chowdhury and Anil Kumar Yadav profitable, whereas the BRS get together clinched one seat with V Ravichandra rising victorious.
Rajasthan
Former Congress president Sonia was elected unopposed from Rajasthan together with BJPâs Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore.Â
This is the primary time that Sonia Gandhi can be coming into the Rajya Sabha. She can even be the second member of the Gandhi household to achieve this, after Indira Gandhi who was a member of the higher home from 1964 to 1967.
Odisha
From Odisha, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw from the BJP, together with BJD’s Debashish Samantray and (*41*) Khuntia, have been declared as winners.
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand BJP chief Mahendra Bhatt was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha. A former MLA, Bhatt would fill the slot within the Upper House to be vacated by the BJP’s nationwide media in-charge Anil Baluni whose tenure comes to an finish in April.
Chhattisgarh
The ruling BJP’s nominee Devendra Pratap Singh, who belongs to an erstwhile royal household and is energetic within the RSS, was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh, officers mentioned. There was just one vacant Rajya Sabha seat within the state and in addition to Singh, no different candidate had filed nomination papers.
Haryana
Former Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala was elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from the state on Tuesday, officers mentioned. No different candidate had entered the fray. On April 2, the six-year time period of incumbent and BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Lieutenant General (retd) DP Vats will come to an finish.
While 50 members will retire on April 2, six will achieve this on April 3. Among the members whose tenure is ending embrace former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupendra Yadav, Mansukh Mandaviya and V Muraleedharan, and BJP’s Anil Baluni and Sushil Kumar Modi. Many senior BJP leaders and outgoing Rajya Sabha MPs, together with seven Union ministers corresponding to Dharmendra Pradhan and Bhupender Yadav, have been renominated by the get together for the biennial polls amid robust indications that a number of of them might contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
