After Ms. Choudhry was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Haryana, BJP’s Kiran Choudhry, Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini and others.
BJP’s Kiran Choudhry emerged as the unopposed winner in the byelection of Rajya Sabha from Haryana State after the time for withdrawal of nominations passed on order at 3.00 p.m. on Tuesday 27th August 2024.
Former Haryana Minister Ms. Choudhry had also submitted her nomination papers for the by election on August 21, 2024. As the only other person nominated against her had withdrawn, the election was uncontested.
Winner’s certificate was handed over at 4.33 p.m. to the Returning Officer for the bypoll at Haryana Vidhan Sabha secretariat by Saket Kumar. Even today, the present Chief Minister Naiab Singh Saini was also present on the occasion.
Earlier when she had filed her nomination, … Earlier when she had filed her nomination, four JJP rebel MLAs had also extended support to her candidature.
No other party has fielded a candidate for the by-election for the other vacant Rajya Sabha seat from Haryana which became vacant after the election of Congress’s Deepender Singh Hooda to Lok Sabha triggering bi-election. Deepender Singh Hooda has been a member of Rajya Sabha since April 9, 2016 and is due to complete his term on April 09, 2026.
The BJP had named Ms.Choudhry (69) as its candidate for the bye election soon after she quit the assembly one week back after two months of joining the BJP from congress (06 March 2024). Choudry and her daughter, former MP Shruti Choudhry joined the BJP in June.
Kiran Choudhry was the MLA from the Tosham seat of Haryana Assembly.
Haryana MLAs Bhupinder Singh Hooda earlier said that his party would not contest the Rajya Sabha with a nominee as there were no supporters.
Union minister Kurian elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh
The Minister of state for information technology and union minister of the BJP’s Bhartiya Janata Party George Kurian was on Tuesday. (Dated, August 27, 2024) Analysis of Madhya Pradesh returning officer Rajeev Chouane declared George from Kerala Monarchist National Party senatorial race early Tuesday afternoon.
On Tuesday again party lines were furthest from center, August 20, 2024, BJP declared its candidate for the Rajya Sabha seat from Madhya pradesh that became vacant in June this year when Jyotiraditya Scindia Da Sitaram went to Lok Sabha after the months of his being under attack A young scifi ce through two runs two.
Mr. Kurian had submitted his nomination papers along with two others including state BJP vice president Kantdev Singh, who hails from Sinasila, and was deemed to have filed papers as a dummy of the BJP. Mr. Singh from Siginai also submitted his nomination papers as dummy candidate of the row-party.
Nominations of one of the two other nominees was disallowed but Mr. Singh withdrew from the contest on the deadline for doing so which was on the last date of the set against the opposing August 27 2024 recall Mr Kurian declare underscoring his election of Mr Singh from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining period ending 2026 although Mr Scindia had led on recorded an official said.
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The Rajya Sabha seat was made vacant when Mr. Scindia resigned from the Upper house after being elected to the Lok Sabha from his Guna seat, which he lost in 2019 as a Congress candidate. Yanam Balakrishnan is the current Union Minister for Communication and North Eastern Region Development.
On March 2020 Mr. Scindia decided to quit the Congress and join the BJP and after that, he became Rajya Sabha member from the State and became Minister for the second Modi Government wherein he assumed charge of the Civil Aviation Ministry.
Out of 11 Rajya Sabha members allotted to Madhya Pradesh, three former members belonged to the opposition Congress, seven occupied by the Emerging governing BJP and one was unoccupied which of course has now been occupied by Mr. Kurian’s election EPP.
Mr. Kurian, from Kerala, who serves as a Minister of the State of the Union, is currently dealing with minority affairs, fishing, animal husbandry, and dairy processing.
In 230 total State Assembly the BJP has 163 MLAs and Congress 64 and Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) one. Two positions are unoccupied.
