India, June 12 -- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, his party colleague Pawan Khera, BJP leaders Tarun Chugh, Satish Poonia, and Rajubhai Shukla were amongst several others from both the parties and others who were declared elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

Manipur BJP president Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi too secured an upper house berth after she was elected unopposed to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from the northeastern state. Contestants from Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur will not have to face the scheduled Rajya Sabha elections on June 18.

The only State where the polls for RS membership will have to be conducted is Jharkhand, where the Congress-JMM rul...