Gujarat BJP Rajya Sabha nominees declared elected unopposed in dullest election in recent time

Ahmedabad, 17/7: Powered by the party’s historic majority of 156 seats in the House of 182, the three ruling BJP candidates Monday were declared elected unopposed which left their election to Rajya Sabha (RS) a mere formality. The state BJP was quick to send congratulatory messages to its candidates. 

 

All three candidates, including external affairs minister S Jaishankar, former BJP MLA Babu Desai and ex-royal family scion Kesridevsinh Zala, were declared elected unopposed. They had filed their nominations last week and their election was a mere formality with the chief opposition Congress staying away from it.

 

With only 17 seats, a historic low, Congress didn’t field any candidate, making it the dullest RS election in the past six years, at least. In 2017, the election to the seats of upper house of the Parliament was one of the biggest political showdowns in the state between BJP and Congress.