New Delhi. Even before the voting for Rajya Sabha elections in UP on October 16, all 10 candidates have been elected unopposed. 8 candidates of BJP and 2 candidates of SP will be members of the Upper House of Parliament. Actually, today was the last day for withdrawal of nominations of the candidates who had filed nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections. When the time for withdrawal of nominations ended at 4 pm, all the 10 candidates were elected unopposed. Earlier, the nomination papers of two independent candidates were rejected, after which a total of 10 candidates were left on 10 seats, out of which 8 are from BJP and 2 from SP.
BJP candidates who were elected unopposed
– Dharampal Singh, Minister Uttar Pradesh Government
– Priyanka Singh Rawat, former Lok Sabha MP
– Prakash Pal, State President of UP BJP Backward Class Morcha
– Gopi Krishna Pandey
– Radhakant Ojha
– Rampratap Singh Chauhan
– Shruti Gangwar
– Vidyasagar Sonkar
These two candidates of SP will go to the Upper House
– Ramgopal Yadav
– Dhanraj Parimal Nathwani
Let us tell you that earlier there were speculations regarding the Rajya Sabha elections that SP may field a third candidate. However, later the Samajwadi Party made it clear that it will give tickets to only two candidates. If SP had fielded its third candidate, the candidates would not have been elected unopposed. In such a situation, elections would have taken place and considering the numerical strength, there could have been a possibility of cross voting. Earlier on Wednesday, during the scrutiny of nomination papers, the Commission found that two independent candidates Kante Sayanna and Omkar Nath did not have the required 10 MLAs as proposers for nomination. Therefore, the Commission had rejected the nominations of the proposers in the case of submitting their nomination papers without writing their names. Now the number of SP members in Rajya Sabha will increase from 4 to 5.