Bengaluru, June 11 -- Four candidates, including three from the Congress and one from the BJP, were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka after the withdrawal deadline ended without any contest.

The elected members are Congress nominees Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera, and Mansoor Ali Khan, along with BJP candidate M Nagaraj. Returning Officer KM Vishalakshi officially declared the candidates elected and handed over certificates to Pawan Khera, Mansoor Ali Khan and M Nagaraj.

A total of five candidates had initially filed nominations for the Rajya Sabha election. Independent candidate Bojanna Somanna had also entered the fray. However, his nomination was rejected during scrutiny as it lacked the required proposers' signatu...