The ruling NDA reached majority mark in the Rajya Sabha today as nine BJP members and two from allies were elected unopposed in the by-polls for the upper house.
The BJP candidates elected unopposed included Mission Ranjan Dass and Rameshwar Teli from Assam, Manan Kumar Mishra from Bihar, Kiran Chaudhary from Haryana, George Kurien from Madhya Pradesh, Dhirya Sheel Patil from Maharashtra, Mamata Mohanta from Odisha, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Rajasthan and Rajeev Bhattacharjee from Tripura.
Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi was elected unopposed from Telangana.NCP Ajit Pawar faction’s Nitin Patil got elected from Maharashtra and RLM’s Updendra Kushwaha made it to the upper house from Bihar.
A majority mark in the Rajya Sabha for which the NDA has been trying for a decade, is going to make the passage of contentious bills painless.
Over the years, the huge Opposition numbers had often held up contentious government bills in the upper house. Some of them could be passed with the help of non-aligned parties like Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal and YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress.
