Bhopal, Feb. 20 -- All five candidates - namely Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan, Umeshnath Maharaj, Bansilal Gurjar, Maya Naroliya (all BJP) and Ashok Singh (Congress) - were declared elected ''unopposed'' to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, it was officially learnt.
The deadline for withdrawal of candidature expired at 1500 hours.
The 230-strong Assembly has 163 BJP members and 66 Congress ones.
The upper house tenures of Ajay Pratap Singh, Kailash Soni, Dharmendra Pradhan, L Murugan (all BJP) and Rajmani Patel (Cong) are concluding on April 2.
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