Forty-one candidates were elect unoppose to the Rajya Sabha from 11 states on 3rd June 2022. Which includes senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, former Congress leader Kapil Sibal, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary, BJD’s Sasmit Patra and YSRCP’s V Vijayasai Reddy.
Biennial elections for the upper house of Parliament are being held to fill 57 seats in Rajya Sabha across 15 states.
The elections are slate to be held on 10th June 2022.
With this, Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka are set to witness a high-stake battle as none of the candidates withdrew their candidatures on the last day.
The 41 candidates who won without contest include 11 from Uttar Pradesh, with 8 from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, 1 each from the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Sibal, an independent, back by the SP.
It also includes 6 from Tamil Nadu, 5 from Bihar, 4 from Andhra Pradesh, 3 each from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, 2 each from Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Telangana and Jharkhand and 1 candidate from Uttarakhand.
Complete List of the Elected Leaders :
Uttar Pradesh (11 candidate)
- Laxmikant Vajpayee (BJP)
- Radhamohan Aggarwal (BJP)
- Surendra Nagar (BJP)
- Darshana Singh (BJP)
- Sangeeta Yadav (BJP)
- Baburam Nishad (BJP)
- Mithlesh Kumar (BJP)
- Kova Laxman (BJP)
- Javed Ali (SP)
- Jayant Chaudhary (joint candidate of SP-RLD)
- Kapil Sibal (Independent with SP backing)
Bihar (5 candidate)
- Khiru Mahto (JD-U)
- Satish Chandra Dubey (BJP)
- Sambhu Saran Patel (BJP)
- Misa Bharti (RJD)
- Faiyaz Ahmad (RJD)
Jharkhand (2candidate)
- Aditya Sahu (BJP)
- Mahua Maji (JMM)
Chhattisgarh (2 candidate)
- Rajiv Shukla (Congress)
- Ranjeet Ranjan
Odisha (3candidate)
- Sasmit Patra (BJD)
- Sulata Deo (BJD)
- Manas Mangaraj (BJD)
Telangana (2 candidate)
- Divakonda Damodar Rao (TRS)
- B Parathasadhi Reddy (TRS)
Tamil Nadu (6 candidate)
- Thanjai S Kalyanasundaram (DMK)
- KRN Rajesh Kumar (DMK)
- R Girirajan (DMK)
- P CHidambaram (Congress)
- CV Shanmugam (AIADMK)
- R Dharmar (AIADMK)
Andhra Pradesh (4 candidate)
- V Vijaysai Reddy (YSR Congress)
- Beeda Masthan Rao (YSR Congress)
- S Niranjan Reddy (YSR Congress)
- R Krishnaiah (YSR Congress)
Madhya Pradesh (3 candidate)
- Sumitra Valmiki (BJP)
- Kavita Patidar (BJP)
- Vivek Tankha (Congress)
Punjab (2 candidate)
- Balbir Singh Seechawal (AAP)
- Vikramjit Singh Sahney (AAP)
