Dinesh Arya of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins Uttarakhand Rajya Sabha seat unopposed

Exam-focused facts from the 9 October 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dinesh Arya was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand, with the election certificate handed over at 3 pm on October 9, 2026.
Arya filed his nomination on October 6 in the presence of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and BJP state president Mahendra Bhatt, and no other candidate filed nomination papers for the seat.
The term of incumbent Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Bansal ends on November 25, 2026.
Arya, a Dalit leader from Kumaon, is vice-chairperson of the State Drinking Water Monitoring Committee and a former BJP Nainital district president.
The Congress did not contest the election, citing a shortage of numbers in the state assembly with only 20 MLAs.