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Trinamool gains from cross-voting, TRS makes debut in Rajya Sabha

Kolkata/Guwahati/Bhubaneswar/Hyderabad: Reaping the fruits of cross-voting, Trinamool Congress gained an extra Rajya Sabha seat in West Bengal while the TRS made its debut to the upper house from Andhra Pradesh in the polls held in

India TV News Desk Updated on: February 08, 2014 12:44 IST
Panchayati Raj Minister Kalpataru Das, Textiles Minister Sarojini Hembram and former minister Ananga Udaya Singh Deo were elected.

However, eminent architect and sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra who was backed by the ruling party on the fourth seat, for which no party had the required numbers, lost.

The Congress fielded Ranjib Biswal, a former member of the Lok Sabha from Jagatsinghpur and the Indian Premier League chairman, against Mohapatra and won.

The nominees of the ruling Congress party in Assam and its alliance partner Bodoland People's Front (BPF) won the three seats.

The winners are state Congress chief Bhubneswar Kalita, Sanjay Singh, who is a Lok Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur and BPF leader Biswajit Daimary.
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