Senior BJD leader A U Singhdeo and former Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh elected to Upper House unopposed. This was informed by the Election Commission official.
It should be noted that A U Singhdeo and Bhupinder Singh filed nominations on Monday for the two vacant Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha, which were vacated by former Upper House members Shashi Bhushan Behera and Rabi Narayan Mohaptra. Both Behera and Mohapatra are now MLAs in Odisha Assembly.
Earlier AU Singhdeo was elected to the Rajya Sabha this year, but he did not take oath in the Upper House and contested the Assembly polls from Bolangir seat. But he lost to Congress candidate Narasingha Mishra, who is now the Leader of Opposition in Odisha Assembly.
While Singhdeo filed his nomination for the seat vacated by Mohapatra, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2012 and had nearly four years of his term left, Bhupinder Singh filed papers for the seat vacated by Behera, who was elected in 2010 and had two years of his term left.
BJD president and chief minister Naveen Patnaik, parliamentary affairs minister Bikram Keshari Arukh and other senior leaders of the ruling BJD were present during the filing of nominations.
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