AAP’s Rajya Sabha nominees in Delhi — Sanjay Singh, N D Gupta and Swati Maliwal —have been elected unopposed, officials said on Friday. No candidate from any other party filed nomination for the elections.
“All three Rajya Sabha nominees have been elected unopposed. And, certificates have also been issued today,” said a senior official in the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated the newly elected MPs of the party. “Many congratulations and best wishes to the three leaders of AAP elected to Rajya Sabha. I am confident that you will strongly raise the issues of the common people in Parliament and fight for the rights of the people of Delhi,” Kejriwal, who is also the AAP national convener, said in a post on X in Hindi.
The last date for filing nominations for the Rajya Sabha elections was January 9 while the scrutiny of nominations took place on January 10. The last date for the withdrawal of candidature was January 12.
Singh, Gupta, and former Delhi Commission for Women chief Maliwal had filed their nominations for the January 19 Rajya Sabha elections here on January 8. AAP had nominated Maliwal as its Rajya Sabha candidate, and renominated Singh and Gupta for a second term in the Upper House of Parliament.
The six-year term of Singh, N D Gupta and Sushil Kumar Gupta ends on January 27. Maliwal’s name was nominated by the party to replace Sushil Gupta.
Singh, who is in jail in connection with a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, had arrived at the transport department office amid tight security to file his nomination papers.