BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma, the Founder and MD of iTV Network, had won the two Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana.
Panwar received 36 votes, while Sharma received 23 first preference votes and six transferred from the BJP, bringing his total to 29.
Ahead of the announcement of these results, Sharma had written to the Election Commission of India, requesting that the votes of Congress MLAs Kiran Choudhry and BB Batra be cancelled, citing “violation of the secrecy of votes in the Conduct of Election Rules 1961.”
