Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, former union ministers Mohsina Kidwai, Capt.Satish Sharma, all Congress and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi of BJP have been elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed. They are among 30 candidates declared elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament as after the deadline for withdrawal of nominations drew to close this evening. Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party have bagged seven seats each.<br/><br/>The BJP garnered five seats, the DMK three, the SP, the NCP and the AIADMK two apiece and the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Shiv Sena one each.<br/><br/>In Uttar Pradesh, the ruling BSP got seven berths as Congress leader Satish Sharma and BJP's Naqvi were among 11 elected uncontested to the House of Elders. <br/><br/>Others elected to the Council of States are Satish Chandra Misra, S P Singh Baghel, Ambed Rajan, Jugal Kishore, Narendra Kashyap, Mohd Salim Ansari and Rajpal Saini, all BSP and Mohan Singh and Rashid Masood, both SP.<br/><br/>Union Minister and Congress leader Ambika Soni and SAD general secretary Balwinder Singh Bhunder were declared elected unopposed from Punjab.<br/><br/>Vijay Darda and Avinash Pande, both Congress, Tariq Anwar and Ishwarlal Jain, both NCP, Piyush Goel, BJP and Sanjay Raut of Shiv Sena were elected from Maharashtra.<br/><br/>From Tamil Nadu, K P Ramalingam, TM Selvaganapathy, S Thangavelu, all DMK, Manoj Pandian and K V Ramalingam, both AIADMK and E M Sudarsana Natchiappan of the Congress were elected.<br/><br/>BJP's Chandan Mitra and Anil Madhav Dave and Vijaylaxmi Sadho of the Congress made it to the Upper Houser from Madhya Pradesh.<br/><br/>Narendra Budhaniya of the Congress was declared elected unopposed from Rajasthan. BJP spokesman Tarun Vijay was declared elected unopposed for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Uttarakhand.