JAIPUR: Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and BJP Vice President O P Mathur and two other party nominees were today elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in the elections in which Congress-backed independent candidate Kamal Morarka was defeated.
While Naidu and Mathur each got 42 votes, ruling BJP’s other two candiates Harsh Vardhan, a member of erstwhile Dungarpur royal family, and Ramkumar Verma, a retired RBI official, secured 40 each.
Congress-supported Independent candidate and industrialist Kamal Morarka got 34 votes–24 of Congress, four of National People’s Party, two of BSP and four Independents. One vote was declared invalid.
A candidate needed 40 votes to win in Rajasthan.
Of the total 200 members of the Legislative Assembly, 199 voted in the polling held from 9 am to 4 pm. (AGENCIES)
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