BJP Elected Unopposed to Rajya Sabha Amid Legal Dispute and Political Allegations

Three BJP folks from Madhya Pradesh got elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. It happened days after Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination got rejected by the Returning Officer.
Polling for those three spots was set for June 18th. Given how strong the BJP is in that state assembly, it seemed pretty locked in. Tarun Chugh and Rajneesh Agrawal were practically guaranteed seats. But the party still fielded Mahesh Kewat against Natarajan for the third spot.
The deadline to withdraw nominations passed at three pm on Thursday. That meant all three BJP candidates were declared elected without any contest.
Natarajan’s disqualification just sealed it. It let the BJP snag all three seats, no fight needed.
Kewat had pushed back Natarajan’s nomination before the Returning Officer. She claimed she hadn't disclosed details about a criminal case registered against her in Telangana on the paperwork.
Now things are heading to the Supreme Court. On Friday they’re hearing Meenakshi Natarajan’s plea over that rejection of her papers.
Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi spoke up today before Justices PK Mishra and Atul S. Chandurkar. He called it genuinely urgent. Asked for either an early hearing or some kind of interim order right now.
He argued the Returning Officer messed up. Rejected her nomination because she didn’t reveal details about a pending case. He said, “Only a summons was issued against her. Not even knowledge of the case itself. The Returning Officer just disqualified her.”
The plea basically says the RO acted illegally. Arbitrarily. With bias. They want to scrap that rejection right away.
Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi brought up the "vote chori" charge again. He pointed at the BJP and the poll body over these Rajya Sabha elections.
He wrote on X something pretty biting. “After Vote Chori and Sarkar Chori – the BJP-EC jugalbandi has finished the contest before it even started with Seat Chori. Look at what happened in the recent Rajya Sabha elections.”
He brought up Natarajan again. She submitted everything. No pending cases, right?
But the EC cancelled her nomination because of a flimsy BJP objection. Then Parimal Nathwani got his name wrong and skipped mandatory disclosures. The EC gave him an extension to fix it all. Same Election Commission. Two candidates involved. One disqualified without any hearing. The other got rewarded even though he didn’t follow the rules.
He ended with this feeling, “When the Congress asked for a meeting, the EC tried to dodge us. When we finally met? Silence. Expect much more of this because for the BJP, it is way easier to fix the election than actually win it.”
Kamal Nath, another senior leader, said that issuing election certificates to those three BJP Rajya Sabha candidates from Madhya Pradesh is just a betrayal of the people of MP and democracy itself.
Nath questioned the rush to declare the BJP candidates elected. He pointed out the EC hasn't decided on the Congress complaint yet. And there’s a Supreme Court hearing scheduled for Friday.
“When the Election Commission hasn't made its call on the Congress party’s complaint, and we have this hearing tomorrow, this kind of haste is just trying to throw dust in our eyes,” Nath wrote on X.
He felt that alleging some sort of “conspiratorial hijacking of the democratic process,” constitutional bodies were acting more like agents for the BJP than doing their actual jobs. He said Congress would fight back politically and legally against this injustice. The opposition parties will oppose this at both judicial and political levels, he added.
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