For the ensuing biennial elections in Rajya Sabha, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) today released a list of 18 candidates who would contest in the election that is scheduled to take place on March 23.
The Bharatiya Janata Party Central Election Committee has decided the following names for the ensuing Biennial Elections to the council of states
(Rajya Sabha) of different states. pic.twitter.com/0cEJ6tfkzk— ANI (@ANI) March 11, 2018
Former chief minister of Maharashtra Narayan Rane and entrepreneur Rajeev Chandrasekhar, BJP general secretaries Anil Jain and Saroj Pandey, and spokespersons Anil Baluni and G V L Narasimha Rao were the prominent names in the list.
The other parties which announced the names of their candidates for Rajya Sabha are the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD), Janta Dal (United) and Congress.
The TDP re-nominated CM Ramesh, a businessman, for one seat and chose a surprise candidate Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar for another for the biennial election to Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh.
While on the Congress counterpart, nine candidates names for Rajya Sabha are declared, including the name of Abhishek Manu Singhvi for West Bengal.
Congress has approved the following names to contest the Rajya Sabha elections pic.twitter.com/2hnbCnhm3b
— ANI (@ANI) March 11, 2018
RJD fielded Manoj Jha and Ashfaque Karim as its party’s candidates, whereas TRS declared J Santosh Kumar, B Prakash Mudiraj and B Lingaiah Yadav for Rajya Sabha.
Mahendra Prasad Singh and Vashishtha Narayan Singh are declared as candidates for RS by JD(U).
The election for 58 Rajya Sabha seats, which will fall vacant in April, was announced by Election Commission (EC) last month.
Members whose terms are ending include union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dharmendra Pradhan and J P Nadda.
The term of office of 58 members of the Upper House, elected from 16 states, is due to expire upon their retirement in April-May 2018.
The vacancies to be filled are 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh, six each from Bihar and Maharashtra; five each from West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh; four each from Gujarat and Karnataka; three each from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha and Rajasthan; two from Jharkhand; and one seat each from Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.