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Mohsina, Naqvi and Anwar among winners elected to upper house
Thursday, June 10, 2010 08:46:24 PM,
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Senior Congress leader
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Lucknow/Mumbai:
A galaxy of political luminaries including Minister of Information
and Broadcasting Ambika Soni, senior Congress leaders Captain Satish
Sharma and Mohsina Kidwai, former BJP MP and senior journalist
Chandan Mitra, Muslim face of the saffron party Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi,
BSP supremo confidant Satish Chandra Mishra, got a passage to the
House of Elders today.
After the last date of withdrawals ended, all 11 candidates in
Lucknow -- Satish Chandra Mishra, Jugal Kishore, Ambeth Rajan,
Mohammad Saleem Ansari, Naresh Kumar Kashyap, Rajpal Singh Saini and
Satyapal Singh (all from BSP), Mohan Singh and Rashid Masood (SP),
Captain Satish Sharma (Congress) and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (BJP)--
were declared elected to the Rajya Sabha.
Chief Minister Mayawati's party General Secretary, Mishra and Rajan
were the only candidates, who had been repeated, while the remaining
five were new faces from the ruling party.
Candidates of SP, Congress and BJP would also be first-timers in the
RS from the state.
In Rajasthan, Congress nominee Narendra Budania was declared elected
unopposed. He was the lone candidate who had filed nomination for
the bypoll necessitated following the death of BJP Member K L
Balmiki. This is his second entry in the Rajya Sabha.
Bharatiya Janata Party candidates Anil Dave and Chandan Mitra and
Congress candidate Vijayalaxmi Sadho were elected unopposed for
three seats from Madhya Pradesh.
Six candidates were elected unopposed from the Maharashtra Assembly
following the withdrawal of Independent candidate Kanhaiyalal
Gidwani.
The elected members were Vijay Darda and Avinash Pandey (Congress),
Tariq Anwar and Ishwarlal Jain (Nationalist Congress Party), Piyush
Goyal (BJP) and Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena).
Gidwani, a Congress leader, who had filed as an Independent,
withdrew in the last minute to pave the way for smooth election. In
Chennai, all the six candidates, including three fielded by the
ruling DMK, one by its ally Congress and two by the main opposition
AIADMK for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu
assembly, were declared elected unopposed.
Those elected to the Upper House of Parliament were T M
Selvaganapathy, K P Ramalingam and S Thangavelu (all DMK), P H Manoj
Pandian and K V Ramalingam (both AIADMK) and E M Sudarsana
Nachiyappan (Congress). The victory of the candidates was a foregone
conclusion following the rejection of the nominations filed by four
Independents on June 8 as they were not supported by ten
legislators, which was mandatory. In Raipur, Congress General
Secretary Mohsina Kidwai and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
leader Nand Kumar Sai were re-elected unopposed from Chhattisgarh.
Ms Kidwai and Sai were the only two nominees of the Congress and the
BJP, who filed their nominations in the biennial elections to two
vacant Rajya Sabha seats from Chhattisgarh.
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