Rajya Sabha elections: Full list of winners
New Delhi, Jun 11: The Rajya Sabha elections to fill 57 vacant seats was held on Friday and the contest was narrowed down to 16 seats in the four states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana and Karnataka.
The contest in the four states came after 41 members in the 11 states were elected unopposed. In Rajasthan the contest for the fourth seat was a tight one after the entry of BJP backed independent candidate Subhash Chandra. The Congress bagged three and the BJP one.
In Karnataka, the BJP won three seats while the Congress managed just one despite cross voting by a JD(S) MLA. In Maharashtra the ruling MVA suffered a major setback as the BJP bagged three of the six while the ruling alliance partners won one seat each.
Here is the full list of state wise winner:
Karnataka
BJP - Nirmala Sitharaman, Jaggesh, Lehar Singh Siroya
Congress - Jairam Ramesh
Rajasthan
Congress - Pramod Tiwari, Randeep Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik
BJP - Ghanshyam Tiwari
Maharashtra
BJP - Piyush Goyal, Anil Bonde, Dhananjay Mahadik
Shiv Sena - Sanjay Raut
NCP - Praful Patel
Congress - Imran Pratapgarhi
Haryana
BJP - Krishan Lal Panwar
Independent - Kartikeya Sharma