2016 Rajya Sabha Election in Odisha Friday June 03,2016

BJD candidates Prasanna Acharya, Bishnu Charan Das and N Bhaskar Rao were on Friday June 03,2016 elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Odisha.

Returning Office and Odisha Legislative Assembly (OLA) secretary AK Sarangi announced election of the three BJD candidates as the deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended this afternoon.

The nomination papers of three independent candidates were earlier rejected on June 1.

The nomination papers of independent candidates K Shyambabu Subbudhi, Lala Arun Singh, and Akshaya Kumar Behera were rejected due to lack of security deposit and the requisite number of proposers for their candidatures.

With election of the 3candidates, the BJD's strength in the Rajya Sabha increased to 8

Of the total 10 seats for Odisha in the Rajya Sabha, the ruling BJD will have 8 members. Of the two other seats, one is occupied by an independent member while another goes to a Congress member.