Jyotiraditya Scindia of BJP and Digvijay Singh of Congress won Rajya Sabha in Madhya Pradesh. Both these leaders lost the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
New Delhi| The results of voting held on Friday in 19 Rajya Sabha seats was announced late in the evening. BJP won 8 seats and Congress won 4 seats. Last time out of these 19 seats, BJP had won 9 seats and Congress had won 6 seats. This time BJP lost 1 and Congress lost 2 seats.
Scindia, Digvijay, Venugopal won
Jyotiraditya Scindia of BJP and Digvijay Singh of Congress won in Madhya Pradesh. Both these leaders lost the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal won from Rajasthan.
Counting stopped in Gujarat
In Gujarat, voting took place after several days of resort politics, but during the counting of votes, Congress demanded the BJP to disqualify 2 votes. Because of this, counting stopped for about two and a half hours. Later 3 BJP candidates and 1 Congress candidate won.
Who won from where
- BJP’s Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sumer Singh won 2 out of 3 Rajya Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh. Digvijay Singh won from Congress in 1 seat.
- In Rajasthan, KC Venugopal and Neeraj Dangi of Congress won. BJP got 1 seat. Rajendra Gehlot of the party won.
- CM Jagan Mohan Reddy’s party YSR Congress won 4 seats in Andhra Pradesh.
Shibu Soren of JMM and Deepak Prakash of BJP won in Jharkhand. - In Meghalaya, Dr. Kharlukhi, the leader of the National People’s Party and a joint candidate of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, won.
- The BJP is in a minority in Manipur, but its candidate Leisemba Sanajaoba has won. In Manipur on Wednesday, two days before the Rajya Sabha elections, there was a political crisis when three BJP MLAs joined the Congress.
- Mizo National Front i.e. MNF candidate K.M. Vanlalveena won. MNF supports NDA at the center.
- Elections were to be held in 24 Rajya Sabha seats of states, but candidates on 5 seats in 2 states were elected without opposition candidates. Therefore, voting was held in 19 seats.
Dear Readers,
As an independent media platform, we do not take advertisements from governments and corporate houses. It is you, our readers, who have supported us on our journey to do honest and unbiased journalism. Please contribute, so that we can continue to do the same in future.
As an independent media platform, we do not take advertisements from governments and corporate houses. It is you, our readers, who have supported us on our journey to do honest and unbiased journalism. Please contribute, so that we can continue to do the same in future.
