Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Monday.
He was declared elected unopposed as the deadline for the withdrawal of nominations for the bypoll ended. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot congratulated Singh on his election to the Upper House of Parliament.
Singh was nominated by the Congress, while the BJP did not field any candidate for the bypoll, necessitated due to the death of Rajya Sabha MP Madan Lal Saini.
Singh, the veteran Congress leader, was a member of the upper house from Assam for almost three decades.
He was a Rajya Sabha member for five consecutive terms from 1991 to 2019 and the country's prime minister for two consecutive terms between 2004 and 2014.
His tenure in Rajya Sabha ended on June 14 this year and he could not be renominated as the Congress party did not have the strength to send him to the upper house from Assam again and there was no other vacancy left.
Rajasthan has 10 Rajya Sabha seats and one got vacant after the demise of Madan Lal Saini, who was also the state president of the BJP.
The remaining nine seats of Rajya Sabha from the state are with BJP.
