Shimla, March 9 -- Himachal Pradesh Congress on Monday organised a felicitation programme at the party's state headquarters, Rajiv Bhawan, in Shimla, to welcome newly elected Rajya Sabha MP Anurag Sharma, who was elected unopposed to the Upper House.

Earlier in the day, 48-year-old Youth Congress leader and Kangra District Congress Committee president Anurag Sharma received his Certificate of Election from the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Secretariat after being declared elected to the Rajya Sabha. The certificate was handed over at the Assembly Secretariat after the deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended, and Sharma remained the sole candidate in the fray.

Following the declaration, Sharma met Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania and ...