Bengaluru, Feb. 28 -- The polls to four Rajya Sabha (RS) seats in the State on Tuesday threw up no miracles, with the ruling Congress winning 3 seats, while the Opposition BJP one seat as expected.

Congress candidates Ajay Maken, a former Union Minister (47 votes), Nasir Hussain (47 votes) & G.C. Chandrashekar (45 votes) and BJP Candidate Narayansa Bhandage (47 votes), were declared winners from the State.

The BJP-JD(S) combine, which had put up Kupendra Reddy as the candidate for the fourth seat with the hope of upsetting the ruling Congress party's applecart, lost the polls by managing to secure only 36 votes. Every candidate was required to get 45 votes in order to be declared winner.

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