Rajya Sabha elections 2022: Congress’s Vivek Tankha, BJP’s Sumitra Valmiki and Kavita Patidar elected unopposed

Congress leader and senior attorney Vivek Tankha and the BJP’s Sumitra Valmiki and Kavita Patidar have been declared as elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh on Friday, an official stated right here.

Though Tankha was elected for the second consecutive expression in the Higher Dwelling of Parliament, Valmiki and Patidar are generating their debuts.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly’s principal secretary and returning officer for the election A P Singh introduced the results as no other candidate experienced submitted nomination for the a few vacant seats as of Friday, the final date for the withdrawal of candidature, mentioned an Assembly formal.

Patidar belongs to an OBC group though Valmiki is a Dalit. The BJP’s preference of candidates was found as considerable in advance of coming community bodies elections which were delayed about the OBC reservation problem until finally the Supreme Court fixed it, and the next year’s Assembly elections.

Patidar had earlier served as a member of the condition Women’s Commission, whilst Valmiki was elected as a corporator of the Jabalpur Municipal Corporation thrice and had also served as an Alderman of the neighborhood physique.

Tankha, a senior Supreme Court docket attorney, is at present a member of the Rajya Sabha.

The latest conditions of Tankha as nicely as two BJP Rajya Sabha MPs from the state, M J Akbar and Sampatiya Uike, are ending this month.

Of whole 11 Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh, the BJP holds eight and the Congress three seats.

The BJP’s other users in the Rajya Sabha from the condition are Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, L Murugan and Dharmendra Pradhan, Ajay Pratap Singh, Kailash Soni and Sumer Singh Solanki.

Moreover Tankha, previous chief minister Digvijaya Singh and Rajmani Patel are the other Rajya Sabha customers from the Congress.