The ruling BJP on Monday won two of the four Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha, while the opposition BJD and a saffron party-backed Independent candidate bagged one seat each in the biennial polls held here, officials said. Returning Officer and Odisha Assembly secretary Satyabrata Rout handed over certificates to the four newly elected members. BJP’s Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal and the party’s MP Sujeet Kumar secured 35 votes each to win the elections. BJD’s official candidate Santrupt Misra won the polls by securing 31 votes. BJP-backed Independent candidate and former Union minister Dilip Ray won the fourth seat through second-preference votes, defeating opposition-backed nominee Datteswar Hota, who was supported by the BJD, Congress and CPI(M). Both Ray and Hota secured 23 first preference votes each, an official said. All 147 members of the Assembly exercised their franchise in the elections. The elections witnessed cross-voting, with several opposition MLAs allegedly supporting BJP candidates and the BJP-backed Independent. Opposition deputy chief whip and BJD MLA P K Deb claimed that eight BJD legislators cross-voted in favour of BJP-supported candidates. He identified the MLAs as Chandramani Kanhar (Baliguda), Subasini Jena (Basta), Souvic Biswal (Chuodwar-Cuttack), Naba Kishor Mallick (Jaydev), Ramakanta Bhoi (Tirtol) and Devi Ranjan Tripathy (Banki). Earlier, OPCC president Bhakta Charan Das had said that three of his party MLAs voted in favour of BJP candidates by violating the party norms. "Three of our MLAs - Ramesh Jena, Dasarathi Gomango and Sofia Fordous - voted against the party decision," Das claimed.