Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday launched its first record of 16 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, with Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal being probably the most distinguished faces to be fielded.
Goyal, who’s the Leader of the House within the Rajya Sabha, has been fielded from Maharashtra and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman from Karnataka. The elections for 52 Rajya Sabha seats are scheduled to be held on June 10 in 15 states, together with Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Haryana and Maharashtra.
Interestingly, the names of BJP lone Muslim face and Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, and occasion normal secretary Dushyanat Gautam, who was a member of the Upper House from Haryana, had been lacking within the first record of candidates. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe was one other distinguished identify that didn’t determine within the record launched on Sunday.
Of the 16 candidates introduced, six are from Uttar Pradesh — Laxaminkant Vajpayee, Radhamohan Aggarwal, Surendra Singh Nagar, Baburam Nishad, Darshana Singh and Sangita Yadav. Aggarwal had left his Gorakhpur Urban constituency for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to contest within the current meeting polls.
The occasion has fielded former MLA Krishna Lal Panwar from Haryana and Kavita Patidar from MP. Actor-turned-politician Jaggesh is the second particular person nominated by the occasion from Karnataka. Apart from Goyal, Anil Deshmukha Bonde would be the second nominee from Maharashtra whereas Ghanshayam Tewari has been discipline from Rajasthan. Interestingly, Tiwari is a vocal critic of former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who has an uneasy equation with the BJP’s central management.
Kalpana Saini has been given the ticket from Uttarakhand and Satish Chandra Dubey and Shambhu Sharan Patel from Bihar. Sources mentioned the second record of candidatures will even be introduced on Monday.
The BJP has tried to keep up social steadiness with members from all castes, together with OBC, SC and ST, being given tickets within the first record.
Shambhu Patel, who’s the nominee from Bihar, belongs to extraordinarily backward caste Dhanuk whereas one other nominee from the state, Satish Chandra Dubey, is a Brahmin. The final date for submitting of nominations is May 31. The final date for withdrawal of candidature is June 3.
UP has the largest tally
UP sends 31 members to Rajya Sabha. Among the 11 retiring MPs from the state, 5 are from the BJP, three from the SP, two from the BSP and one from the Congress.