In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP won two seats and the Congress one.
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For his part, senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Hooda also demanded a probe.
Congress veteran Kapil Sibal won a Rajya Sabha seat from Uttar Pradesh.
Thirty of the 57 seats in the current round of elections were decided without contest last week.
All eyes are on Uttar Pradesh, where elections are being held to 11 seats.
BJP candidate and Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi secured 29 votes while second candidate Mahesh Podaar secured 24.
The recent Rajya Sabha elections in Haryana have turned out to be a new trouble for the party. The Congress is contesting two other independent candidates to gain access to the Rajya Sabha seat.
The Congress won six, the Samajwadi Party (SP) seven and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) two. Although SP managed to ensure victory of all its seven candidates, only three were through in the first round of counting, relecting that the contest was close for the ruling party.
In the biennial polls to the Upper House of Parliament, BJP’s Birender Sigh and party-backed independent candidate, media baron Subhas Chandra, won from Haryana.
In fact, state unit president HD Kumaraswamy had earlier accused the Congress leaders and BJP state president BS Yedyurappa of having a secret pact with the rebel members to defeat the party.
The BJP candidates polled 58 votes each, the minimum required to get elected while the Congress candidate polled 62 votes.
Chandra, an independent candidate supported by the BJP, scraped through amid political drama during the vote count. “I am sure the general secretary concerned will look into the reasons of invalidity of the Congress votes”, he said.
“There is a deep-rooted conspiracy to see that all votes cast by the Congress MLAs were rejected on the ground that they were marked with different pen than supplied by the Returning Officer”, the memorandum read.
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Lone BJP candidate Shiv Pratap Shukla also succeded. Congress-backed independent candidate Kamal Morarka failed to make the grade. BJP’s hopes of the Independent backed by the party making a dent in the Congress-PDF combine came a cropper as the entire chunk of 32 votes of the alliance went to Tamta. Our poll observer B.K. Hariprasad was shown the votes which were being cast by our party legislators. BSP supremo Mayawati had issued a whip to its four MLAs to vote for Tankha. But that was the intention of BJP to engineer some revolt in the Congress and do something in Haryana. “14 votes have been rejected and out of that 12 went to R.K. Anand”, Hooda told ANI. BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said the RS polls have exposed parties opposed to the NDA. It has fielded former senior IPS officer K C Ramamurthy as its third candidate for which it requires 12 more votes.
