Full listing of winners from Bihar, Odisha and Haryana| India Information
The biennial Rajya Sabha elections have been held on Monday to fill 37 seats throughout 10 states. Whereas many candidates gained unopposed, voting was required for 11 seats, together with 5 seats in Bihar, 4 in Odisha and two in Haryana.
Bihar’s longest-serving chief minister, Nitish Kumar, was among the many outstanding leaders who gained within the Rajya Sabha polls. Notably, the Opposition confronted losses in Odisha and Bihar as candidates backed by the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) gained from cross-voting and the absence of some legislators, as talked about in an earlier HT report.
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Rajya Sabha Election Outcomes
Many others have been elected unopposed
Amongst these elected to the Higher Home unopposed have been former Lok Sabha deputy speaker M Thambidurai from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and senior lawyer Abhishek Singhvi from the Congress celebration.
In poll-bound West Bengal, 4 Trinamool Congress (TMC) nominees have been additionally elected with out opposition. They embody Babul Supriyo, former West Bengal director normal of police Rajeev Kumar, senior Supreme Court docket lawyer Menaka Guruswamy and actor Koel Mallick. Former BJP state president Rahul Sinha was additionally elected unopposed.
Notably, Guruswamy has grow to be India’s first brazenly queer member of parliament.
In Maharashtra, all seven nominees gained unopposed. These embody six candidates from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in addition to NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar.
In Telangana, Congress nominees Abhishek Singhvi and Vem Narender Reddy have been elected unopposed.
In Tamil Nadu, all six candidates additionally gained with no contest. AIADMK sitting MP M Thambidurai and PMK chief Anbumani Ramadoss have been elected together with ruling DMK candidates Tiruchi Siva and J Constantine Ravindran. Congress candidate M Christopher Tilak and DMDK treasurer LK Sudeesh have been additionally elected unopposed.
Within the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, Congress candidate Anurag Sharma, an in depth aide of chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, secured victory.
With inputs from companies