Union power minister Piyush Goyal and senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram were on Friday elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra.
Union power minister Piyush Goyal and senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram were on Friday elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. The deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended this afternoon. As none of the six candidates for contesting the RS seats pulled out, all were elected to the Upper House, a senior Vidhan Bhawan official said.
Other elected candidates who had filed their papers for the biennial elections are former union minister Praful Patel (NCP), BJP’s Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and Vikas Mahatme and Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut.
Mr Chidambaram did not contest the 2014 Lok Sabha polls while his son Karti had unsuccessfully fought from his native Sivaganga constituency in Tamil Nadu.
Meanwhile, 10 candidates, including former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane, who had filed nomination papers for one of the 10 seats of the Legislative Council, were also elected unopposed as two others withdrew from the fray at the eleventh hour.
