Chennai, March 9 Six candidates from the ruling DMK, the main opposition AIADMK, and their allies who had filed nominations for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha were declared duly elected unopposed on Monday.
DMK's Tiruchi Siva and Constandine Ravindran, Congress party's Christopher Manickam, DMDK's L K Sudhish, AIADMK's M Thambi Durai, and PMK's Anbumani Ramadoss were declared elected by R Santhi, Returning Officer-Additional Secretary, Legislative Assembly Secretariat.
DMK allies are DMDK and the Congress party, and PMK is an ally of AIADMK.
NR Elango, Tiruchi N Siva, Anthiyur P Selvarasu, Kanimozhi NVN Somu from the DMK, and M Thambidurai from AIADMK and TMC (Moopanar) leader GK Vasan will retire on April 2, 2026, upon the expiry of their terms. Tiruchi Siva and Thambidurai have been re-elected.
The nominations of the six were found to be valid and accepted according to the rules, and they were declared elected, the official said.
Swaminathan, aide of PMK founder S Ramadoss, was among the nominations rejected.