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

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