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The Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) on Sunday launched its listing of 16 candidates for elections to the Rajya Sabha. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will contest from Karnataka, Union Minister for Commerce and Trade Piyush Goyal will contest the RS polls from Maharashtra.
Of the 16 candidates, six are from Uttar Pradesh. The occasion has fielded two ladies — Darshana Singh and Sangeeta Yadav — from the state.
The occasion introduced the names of two candidates every from Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bihar and one candidate every from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana.
The identify of BJP normal secretary Dushyant Gautam, who was a Rajya Sabha member from Haryana, was lacking from the primary listing of candidates.
The occasion has given ticket to former MLA Krishan Lal Panwar from Haryana.
Kavita Patidar would be the occasion’s nominee from Madhya Pradesh, Ghanshyam Tiwari from Rajasthan and Kalpana Saini from Uttarakhand.
From Bihar, the occasion has fielded Satish Chandra Dubey and Shambhu Sharan Patel.
Anil Sukhdevrao Bonde has been nominated from Maharashtra and Jaggesh from Karnataka, based on a BJP launch.
In the meantime, the Congress occasion has finalised the identify of Vivek Tankha for the Rajya Sabha elections slated for 10 June, the occasion’s Madhya Pradesh unit chief Kamal Nath has mentioned.
Of 11 Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh, eight are with the BJP and three with Congress.
The phrases of Vivek Tankha, a senior Supreme Court docket lawyer, in addition to that of BJP’s MJ Akbar and Sampatiya Uike will finish in June.
The BJP’s Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh are Jyotiraditya Scindia, L Murugan, Dharmendra Pradhan, M J Akbar, Ajay Pratap Singh, Kailash Soni, Sumer Singh Solanki and Sampatiya Uike.
The Congress’ Rajya Sabha MPs from the state are Mr Tankha, former chief minister Digvijaya Singh and Rajmani Patel.
Odisha Chief Minister and ruling BJD president Naveen Patnaik has additionally introduced names of 4 candidates of his occasion for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
The Biju Janata Dal named three new candidates – Sulata Deo, Manas Ranjan Mangaraj and Niranjan Bishi – and renominated Sasmit Patra for the polls to the Higher Home of Parliament.
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