New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha elections noticed 41 candidates getting elected with none opposition on Tuesday, together with former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, BJP president J P Nadda, Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan, and BJP’s new entrant Ashok Chavan. The remaining 15 seats in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh will go to polls on February 27. The BJP emerged as the most important winner, securing 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. The returning officers declared these 41 candidates as winners on the final date of withdrawal of nominations, as there have been no different contenders for these seats.
The biennial elections had been scheduled for February 27 in 56 seats. Out of those, 50 members will retire on April 2 and 6 on April 3. The voting for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 4 in Karnataka and one in Himachal Pradesh will happen from 9 am to 4 pm and the counting will begin from 5 pm on the identical day.
Nadda and his get together colleagues Jasvantsinh Parmar, Mayank Nayak and diamond tycoon Govindbhai Dholakia received from Gujarat. The Congress, which has solely 15 MLAs, and different opposition events didn’t subject any candidates in opposition to the BJP, which has 156 legislators within the 182-member Gujarat meeting.
Sonia Gandhi was among the many three candidates who received from Rajasthan, together with BJP’s Chunnilal (*41*) and Madan Rathore.
Maharashtra additionally noticed six candidates getting elected unopposed – BJP’s Chavan, who switched from the Congress final Tuesday, Medha Kulkarni and Ajit Gopchhade; Shiv Sena’s Milind Deora, who stop the Congress final month, Praful Patel (NCP) and Chandrakant Handore (Cong).
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) had been the winners.
Uttar Pradesh can have a contest for 10 seats amongst 11 candidates. The BJP has nominated eight candidates – former Union minister R P N Singh, former MP Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, state get together common secretary Amarpal Maurya, former state minister Sangeeta Balwant, get together spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, former MLA Sadhna Singh, former Agra mayor Naveen Jain and native industrialist and ex-SP chief Sanjay Seth who joined the BJP in 2019.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has renominated Jaya Bachchan and in addition named former MP Ramjilal Suman and retired IAS officer Alok Ranjan as its candidates.
In Karnataka, 4 seats will see a battle amongst 5 candidates. The Congress has put up Ajay Maken, Syed Naseer Hussain and GC Chandrasekhar, whereas Narayansa Bandage is the BJP candidate. JD(S) chief and ex-Rajya Sabha member D Kupendra Reddy can also be within the fray.
In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP has pressured a contest by fielding Harsh Mahajan in opposition to Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi for the lone seat regardless of missing sufficient MLAs to win.
In the night, TMC’s Sushmita Dev, Sagarika Ghose, Mamata Thakur and Md Nadimul Haque and Samik Bhattacharya (BJP) had been the winners from West Bengal.
Union minister Murugan, Valmiki Dham Ashram head Umesh Nath Maharaj, Kisan Morcha’s nationwide vice chairman Banshilal Gurjar, and Madhya Pradesh BJP’s girls wing president Maya Naroliya secured 4 seats for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh whereas Ashok Singh of the Congress additionally received with none opposition.
From Odisha, Union minister Vaishnaw (BJP) and BJD’s Debashish Samantray and Subhashish Khuntia had been the winners.
The YSR Congress bagged all of the three seats in Andhra Pradesh – G Babu Rao, Y V Subba Reddy and M Raghunath Reddy whereas in neighbouring Telangana, the ruling Congress received two seats – Renuka Chowdhury and Anil Kumar Yadav – and BRS one seat – V Ravichandra.
BJP nominees in Uttarakhand (Mahendra Bhatt), Subhash Barala (Haryana), Devendra Pratap Singh (Chhattisgarh) received with none contest.
