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The returning serviceman connected Thursday (June 11, 2026) declared the 3 BJP candidates elected unopposed successful the biennial Rajya Sabha elections successful Madhya Pradesh, adjacent arsenic Congress campaigner Meenakshi Natarajan has moved the Supreme Court against the rejection of her nomination.
Returning Officer Arvind Sharma announced that the Bharatiya Janata Party's Tarun Chugh, Rajneesh Agarwal and Mahesh Kewat person been elected.
The trio visited the Assembly analyzable successful Bhopal and collected their certificates of triumph earlier displaying them to the media. They besides met State BJP president Hemant Khandelwal later.
"Your dedication to the organisation, tireless hard work, and extended acquisition successful nationalist work volition undoubtedly contiguous issues of Madhya Pradesh and nationalist interest, efficaciously successful the Upper House of Parliament. I americium assured that nether the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, you volition each play a important relation successful realising the imaginativeness of a developed India successful 2047 and volition supply caller vigor to the aspirations of the people," Mr. Khandelwal said successful a station connected X, wishing the 3 leaders a palmy parliamentary term.
The Congress had nominated Meenakshi Natarajan arsenic its sole candidate, but returning serviceman Sharma rejected her information connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) connected the crushed that she concealed accusation astir a tribunal ailment filed against her successful Telangana successful the Form 26 submitted with her nomination. BJP campaigner Mahesh Kewat had filed a ailment successful this regard.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court would beryllium proceeding Ms. Natarajan's petition against the Returning Officer's determination connected Friday (June 12, 2026).
Voting for the 3 Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh was scheduled for June 18. These seats were to autumn vacant with the expiry of the presumption of BJP's George Kurien and Sumer Singh Solanki and elder Congress person Digvijay Singh connected June 21. The BJP has 164 MLAs successful the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly portion the Congress has 62 MLAs eligible to vote. With each Rajya Sabha campaigner requiring 58 votes to win, the BJP was assured of winning 2 seats comfortably, portion the Congress had capable votes to triumph a azygous seat.
But the saffron enactment fielded a 3rd candidate, whose triumph would person depended connected cross-voting oregon abstention by absorption members had polling taken place.
Speaking successful Delhi, Congress wide caput K.C. Venugopal said what happened successful Madhya Pradesh was "seat chori (seat theft)".
"There is nary transgression lawsuit against Meenakshi Natarajan. In Jharkhand a BJP-backed person's information was allowed contempt him leaving 2 columns empty. It was incorrect but it was accepted," Mr. Venugopal said, adding that they volition combat against the rejection of Natarajan's information "politically and legally.”
Speaking to PTI Videos, erstwhile main caput of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Bhagwandev Israni opined that Ms. Natarajan was not required to disclose the lawsuit successful question against her arsenic nary FIR oregon complaint expanse had been filed.
Ms. Natarajan was not fixed a accidental by the authorities, helium said, adding that the Election Commission of India (ECI) needs to intervene arsenic courts mostly bash not look into specified matters erstwhile the predetermination process begins.
Under conception 33A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, a contesting campaigner indispensable state pending transgression cases successful which 1 is accused of an offence punishable with imprisonment of 2 years oregon much lone if a competent tribunal has framed charges, said Mr. Israni.
Congress leaders had approached the ECI connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026), but nary determination was taken, helium noted.
