By IANS,
Kolkata: All the six Rajya Sabha nominees from West Bengal were elected unopposed Friday after the time for withdrawal of nomination got over, officials said.
Four of them were from the Trinamool Congress, and one each from Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), said assembly secretary J.L. Chakraborty.
Earlier, the nominations of all of them were found valid Wednesday during the scrutiny.
The four Trinamool nominees were Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, Derek O’Brien, Srinjay Bose and Sukhendu Sekhar Roy. Pradip Bhattacharya and Sitaram Yechury were the successful candidates from the Congress and CPI-M respectively.
The Rajya Sabha polls were held with the terms of CPI-M’s Brinda Karat, Mohammad Amin, Yechury and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)’S Abani Roy of RSP slated to finish Aug 18. Meanwhile, Congress-backed Independent member Arjun Sengupta had died.