<p>Ranchi: JMM leader Sarfaraz Ahmad and BJP's Pradeep Verma were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand on Thursday.</p>.<p>Returning officer Syed Javed Haider handed them the certificates of election after declaring them winners.</p>.<p>"Since only two candidates were in the fray for the two Rajya Sabha seats in Jharkhand, they were declared winner unopposed," Haider told PTI.</p>.<p>After receiving the certificate, Verma thanked the BJP leadership for entrusting him with the responsibility.</p>.'Rectified manifest error harmful to public interest, polity': SC on overturning 1998 verdict in JMM bribery case.<p>"The party has given big responsibility to a small-time worker like me. I thank our senior leaders for this. I would be trying to become the voice of Jharkhand in the Upper House of Parliament," said Verma, who is the BJP's general secretary in the state.</p>.<p>Ahmad, who resigned as an MLA in January, said he would be raising the issues concerning Jharkhand in Rajya Sabha.</p>.<p>Ahmad, who holds a PhD, has a long history in politics, having been first elected as an MLA in 1980 in undivided Bihar and serving as a Member of Parliament from 1984 to 1989 representing Giridih.</p>.<p>The seats will fall vacant as the tenure of the two incumbent MPs, BJP's Samir Oraon and Congress's Diraj Prasad Sahu, will end on May 3.</p>.<p>Jharkhand has six seats in the Rajya Sabha. Of the other four, two each are held by the state's ruling JMM and opposition BJP. </p>
<p>Ranchi: JMM leader Sarfaraz Ahmad and BJP's Pradeep Verma were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand on Thursday.</p>.<p>Returning officer Syed Javed Haider handed them the certificates of election after declaring them winners.</p>.<p>"Since only two candidates were in the fray for the two Rajya Sabha seats in Jharkhand, they were declared winner unopposed," Haider told PTI.</p>.<p>After receiving the certificate, Verma thanked the BJP leadership for entrusting him with the responsibility.</p>.'Rectified manifest error harmful to public interest, polity': SC on overturning 1998 verdict in JMM bribery case.<p>"The party has given big responsibility to a small-time worker like me. I thank our senior leaders for this. I would be trying to become the voice of Jharkhand in the Upper House of Parliament," said Verma, who is the BJP's general secretary in the state.</p>.<p>Ahmad, who resigned as an MLA in January, said he would be raising the issues concerning Jharkhand in Rajya Sabha.</p>.<p>Ahmad, who holds a PhD, has a long history in politics, having been first elected as an MLA in 1980 in undivided Bihar and serving as a Member of Parliament from 1984 to 1989 representing Giridih.</p>.<p>The seats will fall vacant as the tenure of the two incumbent MPs, BJP's Samir Oraon and Congress's Diraj Prasad Sahu, will end on May 3.</p>.<p>Jharkhand has six seats in the Rajya Sabha. Of the other four, two each are held by the state's ruling JMM and opposition BJP. </p>