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Bhopal, March 22 (IANS) All the five nominees for Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh were elected unopposed Thursday. These include four from the state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and one from the Congress. Among the four BJP nominees who have won is cash-for-vote accused Faggan Singh Kulaste. Kulaste, then MP from Mandla constituency, had along with his party colleagues Ashok Argal and Mahaveer Bhagora waved currency notes inside parliament in July 2008 during a no-confidence motion after the Left parties withdrew support to the Manmohan Singh government on the Indo-US nuclear deal. However, he lost his seat in the 2009 general elections. He had also been jailed in the cash-for-vote scam. Along with Kulaste, Rajya Sabha's former vice-chairman Najma Heptullah, Captan Singh Solanki and Thawar Chand Gehlot were elected from the BJP, while Congress's Satyavrat Chaturvedi also got elected to the upper house.
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