BJP wins unopposed Gujarat Rajya Sabha seat held by Late Ahmed Patel

The Bharatiya Janta Party(BJP) on Monday gained each Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat unopposed after the seats had fallen vacant following the demise of Congress MP Ahmed Patel and BJP MP Abhay Ganpatray Bhardwaj.
Gujarat: BJP wins unopposed each Rajya Sabha seats from Gujarat, together with the one held by Congress chief Ahmed Patel.— ANI (@ANI) February 22, 2021
The Rajya Sabha seats have been gained by BJP candidates Dinesh Anavadiya and Ram Mokariya after bypolls have been held on the 2 seats because of the demise of demise of Mr Patel and Mr Bhardwaj.
Anavadiya, the state’s BJP OBC Morcha president, can also be a senior celebration chief from the Banaskantha district and has served because the director of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation between 2014-17. Mokariya, then again, is a founder-chairman of a courier firm moreover being a loyal partyman for over 4 many years. 
The victory of the 2 BJP candidates was anticipated on Thursday final week, the final day of nominations, when not one of the Congress candidates turned as much as file their nominations for the Rajya Sabha seats. 
One of the 2 Rajya Sabha seats was held on by Congress veteran Ahmed Patel till his demise in November 2020. 
BJP wins the Rajya Sabha seat held by Congress veteran Ahmed Patel
Ahmed Patel had held on to his Rajya Sabha seat for years on finish. He had been elected to the Upper House 5 occasions from Gujarat, his native state, and served Congress in varied capacities together with its treasurer. 
Most notably, Patel scraped by a nail-biting victory within the 2017 Rajya Sabha elections when the Congress loyalist returned to the higher home for the fifth time in a hard-fought contest.
BJP had by no means been in a position to safe a victory over the Rajya Sabha seat till Ahmed Patel was alive. Patel breathed his final on 25 November 2020 after he had suffered issues as a result of COVID-19 in a Gurgaon hospital.