Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal and senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram were on Friday elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra.
Others elected are former union minister Praful Patel (NCP), BJP's Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and Vikas Mahatme and Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut, who had filed their papers for the biennial elections
The deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended this afternoon.
As none of the six candidates for as many RS seats pulled out, all were elected to the Upper House, a senior Vidhan Bhawan official said.
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