The biennial Rajya Sabha elections were held on Monday to fill 37 seats across 10 states. Voting was required for 11 seats, including five in Bihar, four in Odisha, and two in Haryana.
Bihar's longest-serving chief minister, Nitish Kumar, won in the Rajya Sabha polls, while the Opposition faced losses in Odisha and Bihar due to cross-voting and the absence of some legislators.
Former Lok Sabha deputy speaker M Thambidurai from the DMK and senior lawyer Abhishek Singhvi from the Congress party were elected unopposed.
In poll-bound West Bengal, four Trinamool Congress nominees, including Babul Supriyo and Menaka Guruswamy, were elected without opposition. Guruswamy has become India's first openly queer member of parliament.
Notably, candidates backed by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) gained in Odisha and Bihar.
