Rajya Sabha Elections 2026: All candidates including Sharad Pawar, Athawale, Vinod Tawde, Jyoti Waghmare, Parth Pawar elected unopposed on 7 Rajya Sabha seats.
Rajya Sabha Elections 2026: In the biennial elections held for seven vacant seats of Rajya Sabha in Maharashtra, all the candidates have been elected unopposed. According to the official announcement by the Election Commission, all seven stalwarts including NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, Union Minister of State Ramdas Athawale and senior BJP leader Vinod Tawde have been declared winners unopposed. The most interesting thing about this election was the candidature of Ramdas Athawale, who succeeded in maintaining the separate identity of his party at the last moment.
Read :- BJP played a big role in Maharashtra politics, did not field candidates against Sharad Pawar, will reach Rajya Sabha unopposed.
Ramdas Athawale retained the identity of the party
An important development in the election process came when Ramdas Athawale was declared elected as the candidate of his own party, the Republican Party of India (A). It is noteworthy that at the time of the initial announcement, he was presented as the official candidate of BJP.
According to sources, Athawale contacted senior leaders in Delhi and insisted that he should contest the elections on the symbol of RPI (Athawale) instead of BJP. He submitted his party’s ‘A’ and ‘B’ forms in time, due to which his party’s independent identity could be protected in the NDA.
Three seats in BJP’s account
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After the Election Commission’s announcement, three candidates of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have been elected unopposed. These mainly include the party’s National General Secretary Vinod Tawde, who is making a comeback in electoral politics after a long time. Apart from these, Maya Inamdar and Ramrao Wadkute have also become members of the Upper House from BJP.
Equation of Grand Conjunction and MVA
Of the seven seats in Maharashtra, six seats have gone to the ruling Mahayuti alliance, while only Sharad Pawar was the candidate from the opposition (Maha Vikas Aghadi). Apart from three BJP members from Mahayuti, Jyoti Waghmare from Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and his son Parth Pawar from Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party have been elected.
Sharad Pawar reaching the Upper House once again important for opposition unity
Sharad Pawar reaching the Upper House once again is being considered important for opposition unity. At the same time, Ramdas Athawale’s victory under the banner of his party further strengthens his dominance in Dalit politics. BJP has tried to solve various caste equations in the state through Vinod Tawde and other names. The tenure of all the newly elected members will start from April 2026.
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