Hyderabad, March 6 -- Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi and former MLA Vem Narendra Reddy filed their nominations for two Rajya Sabha seats in the biennial elections from Telangana, on Thursday, the last date for nominations.

Both the candidates are likely to be elected unopposed, as the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi stayed away from the contest.

"Though an independent candidate also filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections, it is bound to get rejected as it does not have the mandatory signatures of at least 10 MLAs required for the election," an assembly secretariat official familiar with the development said.

Singhvi and Narender Reddy submitted different sets of nomination papers to election officer Upender ...