New Delhi: Results for several seats for Rajya Sabha from across the country were announced on Thursday. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, party leader
Pawn Khera and BJP’s Satish Poonia were among prominent winners.
Two candidates from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and one candidate from the Congress have won Rajya Sabha elections unopposed. They were declared winners as no other candidates were in the fray after the expiry of the deadline to withdraw nominations.
3 candidates win from Rajasthan
Announcing the results, the returning officer declared BJP candidates Satish Poonia and Alka Gurjar, and Congress’s Neeraj Dangi elected to the elections for the Upper House of Parliament. Also, the number of validly nominated candidates was the same as the number of seats needed to be filled, news agency PTI reported.
The elections for Rajya Sabha seats were held after the terms of Congress MP Dangi and BJP MPs Rajendra Gehlot and Ravneet Singh are about to end on June 21. The nine nomination papers filed by elected candidates were found to be valid. Notably, Rajasthan has a total of eight Rajya Sabha seats.
Ex-PM HD Deve Gowda’s tenure set to end this month
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge also won from Karnataka for the elections to the Upper House. Apart from him, two others from Congress and one from the BJP won from the state. As many as four seats from the seats are to be filled from the state as terms of Iranna Kadadi and Narayana Koragappa (both from the BJP), Mallikarjun Kharge of the Congress, and former PM H D Deve Gowda from JD(S) are set to end on June 25.
The other two Congress candidates who also won from the seat are Mansoor Ali Khan and Pawan Khera. M Nagaraja of the BJP also won from Karnataka. Here also, four candidates were declared winners after the last date of withdrawal of candidature ended on Thursday. Apart from them, BJP candidates Rajneesh Agrawal, Tarun Chugh and Mahesh Kewat won from Madhya Pradesh.
