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Results of Rajya Sabha elections held in seven state on Saturday have been declared. Out of 27 elected, BJP has won 11 seats, Samajwadi Party got seven and Congress bagged 6 seats.
In Rajasthan, BJP has won all four seats. The winning candidates including Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiya Naidu and Party’s National vice president Om prakash Mathur. The other candidates who stood victorious are Harsh Vardhan singh and Ramkumar Verma.
In Uttar Pradesh, all the seven candidates of the ruling Samajwadi Party recorded victory.
It’s candidates Beni Prasad Verma, Reoti Raman Singh, Amar Singh, Sanjay Seth, Vishwambhar Prasad Nishad, Suresh Nagar and Sukhram Singh Yadav were declared victorious in preferential votes.
Both candidates of BSP Satish Chand Mishra and Ashok Siddhartha have also won the Rajyasabha seats.
Lone BJP candidate Shiv Pratap Shukla also succeded. Kapil Sibal of Congress defeated Independent Priti Mahapatra, a BJP supported candidate.
For the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Uttarakhand, Congress candidate Pradeep Tamta defeated BJP supported independent candidate Anil Goyal.
The Congress candidate got the support of party’s 26 MLAs and 6 MLAs of the PDF.
In Jharkhand, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Mahesh Poddar of BJP won both the seats.
In Haryana, BJP candidate Choudhry Birendra Singh and independent Subhash Chandra stood victorious in a high velocity counting.
Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitaraman of BJP secured a second term in Rajya Sabha winning from Karnataka. Congress romped home with three seats.
The Congress winners included former Union Ministers Oscar Fernandes and Jairam Ramesh, the third Congress nominee, K C Ramamurthy, won the seat with the help of votes from Independents and JD(S) rebel legislators.
In Madhya Pradesh, BJP candidates Anil Madhav Dave and MJ Akbar and Congress nominee Vivek Tankha got elected to the upper house.
30 candidates were already declared elected unopposed at the end of withdrawal of nominations on June 3.
Prominent among them are Union Ministers – Suresh Prabhu and Piyush Goyal, eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani, Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharati and former JD(U) president Sharad Yadav.