{"id":18593,"date":"2026-11-03T18:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/?p=18593"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:15:43","slug":"union-minister-hardeep-puri-rajya-sabha-bypoll-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/?p=18593","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Hardeep Puri Poised for Uncontested Rajya Sabha Bypoll Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Hardeep Puri Set to Secure Rajya Sabha Seat<\/p>\n<p>Union Minister Hardeep Puri is firmly positioned to secure victory in the upcoming Rajya Sabha bypoll. This political development follows the recent rejection of nomination papers filed by two other candidates in the electoral contest.<\/p>\n<p>Electoral Process and Scrutiny<\/p>\n<p>Election officials confirmed the rejection of the competing applications during the mandatory scrutiny phase. With these exclusions, the path has been cleared for the senior minister to advance without facing active opposition in this legislative race.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline and Official Announcement<\/p>\n<p>According to election authorities, the formal result of the bypoll is scheduled to be officially announced on November 5. This date also marks the final deadline for any remaining candidates to officially withdraw their nominations, concluding the electoral timeline for this vacant parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Hardeep Puri is set to win the Rajya Sabha bypoll unopposed after the rejection of competing nominations. Results due November 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12408,12407,129,700,12409],"class_list":["post-18593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-bypoll","tag-hardeep-puri","tag-indian-politics","tag-rajya-sabha","tag-union-minister"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srknation.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}