New Delhi: The results for the six seats of Rajya Sabha polls in three states were declared on Friday, April 1.The elections took place on March 31, Thursday for six seats, of which two are in Assam, three in Kerala, and one in Tripura.While elections were supposed to be conducted for 13 seats, the Congress and the BJP did not field their candidates for the five seats from Punjab, thereby allowing the five Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) nominees to get elected unopposed. Similarly, the Congress did not oppose the BJP nominee’s candidature from Himachal Pradesh. And in Nagaland, S. Phangnon Konyak had been declared elected unopposed earlier.Congress loses out in AssamIn Assam, two ruling NDA candidates – Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Pabitra Margherita and United People’s Party Liberal’s (UPPL) Rwngra Narzary – were elected to the Rajya Sabha, while Congress candidate and outgoing MP Ripun Bora lost.Margherita, whose victory was assured, polled 46 votes, while Narzary secured 44 votes. All the 126 MLAs of the Assam assembly cast their votes and one vote was found to be invalid.The opposition parties had earlier announced that they would unanimously support Bora, but the Congress candidate polled only 35 votes – indicating that there was cross-voting by seven opposition MLAs.The two Rajya Sabha seats were earlier held by Congress members Ripun Bora and Ranee Narah.In the assembly, the ruling NDA has 79 seats – with 63 from the BJP, nine from the Asom Gana Parishad and seven from the UPPL. The combined strength of the opposition parties in the House is 47: Congress (27), All India United Democratic Front (15), Bodoland People’s Front (3) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (1), and one independent candidate.Tripura sends first BJP member to Rajya SabhaIn Tripura, BJP president Manik Saha was elected to the state’s lone Rajya Sabha seat. He becomes the first BJP Rajya Sabha MP from the state.Saha polled 40 votes while his rival candidate, CPI(M) nominee Bhanu Lal Saha, bagged 15.Also read: Karnataka: Congress Raises 19 Lakh ‘Missing’ Evms, Wants Election Commission SummonedAn MLA of the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT), a constituent of the ruling BJP-led coalition, did not vote. The MLA has reportedly joined the Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA Motha), PTI reported.Four seats of the 60-member Tripura assembly are now vacant.Saha, who quit the Congress and joined the BJP in 2016, was made the party’s state president in 2020. He had replaced Biplab Kumar Deb, who had led the saffron party to a phenomenal victory in the 2018 assembly elections ending 25 years of Communist rule.CPI(M) candidate Bhanu Lal Saha is an MLA and a former finance minister of the state.Barring one MLA of the IPFT, all 40 legislators of the BJP-IPFT alliance supported him. There was no cross-voting, assembly speaker Ratan Chakraborty said.Kerala: LDF bags two, UDF oneIn Kerala, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) bagged two of the three seats and Congress bagged the remaining one seat.LDF candidates P. Santosh Kumar of CPI and A.A. Rahim of CPI(M) registered a comfortable victory while Congress candidate Jebi Mather also won, news reports said.(With PTI inputs)