Birendra Prasad Baishya, Kamakhya Prasad Tasa elected as members of the Rajya Sabha

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: Both Birendra Prasad Baishya of the AGP and Kamakhya Prasad Tasa of the BJP were elected as members of the Rajya Sabha on Friday. The Rajya Sabha election for two vacant posts in Assam was scheduled to be held on June 7. Since only two candidates filed nomination papers against the two vacant Rajya Sabha members in the State, there is no necessity of holding the election after the expiry of the last date of withdrawal of candidature at 3 pm on Friday. After the expiry of the last date for withdrawal of candidature, Returning Officer AN Deka declared both Baishy and Tasa elected as members of the Upper House.

Baishya has already received the certificate for his election to the Upper House from the Returning Office in the presence of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary, AGP president Atul Bora, AGP working president Keshab Mahanta and many others. Tasa, who is out of the State now, is supposed to receive the certificate later.

Baishya said that he will live up to the expectations of the people of Assam by raising issues which afflict the State in the Rajya Sabha.

While Baishya was a former Union minister and a Rajya Sabha MP, Tasa was elected to the Lok Sabha as a member in 2014. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election he was denied ticket by the BJP. The party, however, fielded him in the Rajya Sabha election, and he came out successful.

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