10 Rajya Sabha MPs elected to AIIMS and other statutory bodies unopposed

Ten members of the Rajya Sabha have been elected to various statutory bodies, including AIIMS institutes across the country, as the number of candidates equalled the vacancies.

While Rajya Sabha MP Gulam Ali has been elected to be a member of the AIIMS, Awantipora; Ashok Kumar Mittal has been elected as a member of AIIMS, Bathinda; and Rajneesh Kumar Agrawal as a member of AIIMS, Bhopal.

AGP MP from Assam Birendra Prasad Baishya was elected as a member of AIIMS, Guwahati; BJP MP from Jammu and Kashmir Sat Paul Sharma was elected as a member of AIIMS, Vijaypur; I S Inbadurai as member of AIIMS, Madurai; and Madan Rathore as a member of AIIMS, Jodhpur.

Lahar Singh Siroya has also been elected as a member of the Central Silk Board, BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh Sikander Kumar has been elected as member of the Council of the National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management and BJP MP from Haryana Rekha Sharma was elected as a member of the National Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board.

The members were elected as there were equal number of vacancies as the number of candidates nominated for elections to the statutory bodies, a notification by Rajya Sabha Secretariat said.

In another notification, the RS Secretariat said the number of candidates being equal to the number of members to be elected to the Committee on Public Accounts and Committee on Public Undertakings, the following members were declared duly elected to these Committees.

BJP MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and DMK MP Tiruchi Siva were elected as members of the Committee on Public Accounts and Mohammed Nadimul Haque was elected as a member of the Committee on Public Undertakings.

With the number of candidates being equal to the number of members to be elected to the Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes, the following members were declared duly elected to be the members of the committee for a term of one year beginning from the date of the first sitting of the committee.

The members elected to the OBC Committee are Masthan Rao Yadav Beedha, Subhasish Khuntia, Amar Pal Maurya, Mayankkumar Nayak, AA Rahim, KRN Rajeshkumar, Kalpana Saini, Paka Venkata Satyanarayana, Ashok Singh and Bhim Singh.