AAP candidates Sanjay Singh, Sushil Gupta and ND Gupta elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates Sanjay Singh, Sushil Gupta and ND Gupta, whose names were decided to be sent to the Rajya Sabha on January 3, have been elected unopposed to the Upper House from Delhi.

The three got 'Certificate of Election' confirming their election to the Rajya Sabha by Returning Officer Nidhi Srivastava.

AAP's decision to send senior party leader Sanjay Singh, businessman Sushil Gupta and chartered accountant ND Gupta to the Rajya Sabha was announced following the party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting on January 3. The meeting, which was held at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence, was attended by 56 party MLAs.

"Sushil Gupta has made big contributions in the education and health sectors in Delhi and Haryana. He provides free education to 15,000 children. Narayan Das Gupta is the former president of the ICAI(Institute of Chartered Accountant of India)," AAP leader Manish Sisodia said soon after the announcement.

Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken had on Saturday sought rejection of the nomination of ND Gupta for allegedly holding an office of profit, even as the latter rejected the charges.

In his objection filed with the returning officer, Maken claimed that Gupta is "currently holding the office of a trustee of the National Pension System Trust. He was appointed on March 30".

In his response to the returning officer's notice on Maken's objections, Gupta said he was appointed as a trustee of the NPS on March 30 last year but he resigned from the trust on December 29, way before the filing of his nomination.

-With IANS inputs