New Delhi, June 04:
Forty-one candidates across party lines from 11 states were declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha on Friday, the last date for withdrawal of candidature for the crucial elections to the Upper House of Parliament next week.
Elections to 57 seats in Rajya Sabha, spread across 15 states and Union territories, are slated to be held on June 10. Keen contests in Haryana, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra are on the cards as none of the candidates withdrew their candidatures on the last day.
All the 11 candidates in Uttar Pradesh, six in Tamil Nadu, five in Bihar, four in Andhra Pradesh, three each in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, two each in Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Telangana and Jharkhand and one candidate in Uttarakhand won without a contest.
