With win in 11 seats, BJP gains muscle in Rajya Sabha
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party maximised its gains in Saturday’s Rajya Sabha polls, winning 11 seats on its symbol, while ensuring that one more candidate, media baron Subhash Chandra, an Independent who was backed by the party, defeated a Congress-INLD backed Independent in Haryana.
For the Congress, the news should have been good too, as four of the six seats that it won were secured with support from friendly parties: the bad news for the party came from Haryana, where the candidate it had backed, senior lawyer R.K. Anand, lost because 15 votes intended for him were rejected.
The second seat in Haryana was won by Union Rural Development Minister Birender Singh.
The elections to 27 Rajya Sabha seats, spread across seven States, saw the BJP win 11 with four going to sitting central ministers and the Congress winning six. The Samajwadi Party secured seven seats and the Bahujan Samaj Party two, while a BJP-supported Independent won one.
Earlier, 30 of the total 57 seats in the current round of biennial elections to the Upper House were decided without a contest.
Here are the winners:
Candidate | Party | State |
---|---|---|
Birender Singh | BJP | Haryana |
Subhash Chandra | BJP | Haryana |
M.J. Akbar | BJP | Madhya Pradesh |
Anil Madhav Dave | BJP | Madhya Pradesh |
Vivek Tankha | Congress | Congress |
M. Venkaiah Naidu | BJP | Rajasthan |
Om Prakash Mathur | BJP | Rajasthan |
Harshvardhan Singh | BJP | Rajasthan |
Ramkumar Verma | BJP | Rajasthan |
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | BJP | Jharkhand |
Mahesh Podaar | BJP | Jharkhand |
Nirmala Sitharaman | BJP | Karnataka |
Oscar Fernandes, and | Congress | Karnataka |
Jairam Ramesh | Congress | Karnataka |
K.C. Ramamurthy | Congress | Karnataka |
Amar Singh | Samajwadi Party | Uttar Pradesh |
Beni Prasad Verma | Samajwadi Party | Uttar Pradesh |
Sanjay Seth | Samajwadi Party | Uttar Pradesh |
Reoti Raman Singh | Samajwadi Party | Uttar Pradesh |
Sukhram Yadav | Samajwadi Party | Uttar Pradesh |
Surender Nagar | Samajwadi Party | Uttar Pradesh |
Vishambhar Prasad Nishad | Samajwadi Party | Uttar Pradesh |
Satish Mishra | BSP | Uttar Pradesh |
Ashok Siddhartha | BSP | Uttar Pradesh |
Shiv Pratap Shukla | BJP | Uttar Pradesh |
Kapil Sibal | Congress | Uttar Pradesh |
Pradeep Tamta | Congress | Uttarakhand |