NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday introduced candidates for 9 out of 12 Rajya Sabha seats going to bypolls on September 3 together with Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu from Rajasthan and Kiran Choudhary from Haryana, the 2 former Congress members who had not too long ago joined the social gathering.
Bittu, 48, had stop Congress and joined BJP forward of Lok Sabha elections. He contested from Ludhiana in Punjab as a BJP candidate however misplaced to Congress’ Amarinder Singh Raja Warring.Bittu is at present Union minister of state railway and meals processing industries. This seat fell vacant as a consequence of resignation of Congress’ Ok C Venugopal from Rajya Sabha membership after he was elected to Lok Sabha.
BJP additionally introduced George Kurian as its candidate for a Rajya Sabha seat from MP that grew to become vacant following Jyotiraditya Scindia’s election to Lok Sabha. Kurian, a member from Kerala and at present MoS for minority affairs, fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, is ready to win comfortably given BJP’s power within the MP meeting.
The social gathering fielded former BJD member Mamata Mohanta from Odisha who had additionally joined the social gathering not too long ago.
Based on a listing of 9 candidates launched by the social gathering, Manan Kumar Mishra will contest from Bihar, Dhairyashil Patil from Maharashtra and Rajib Bhattacharjee from Tripura.
The social gathering has fielded Mission Ranjan Das and ex-Union minister Rameswar Teli as its candidates from Assam.
Ten of those seats fell vacant as sitting members, together with Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Sarbananda Sonowal and Scindia, had been elected to Lok Sabha. Bypolls are additionally being held for 2 seats in Telangana and Odisha. Kiran Choudhry has been nominated from Haryana, practically two months after she switched sides from the Congress. Bypoll for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Haryana was necessitated after Congress’ Deepender Singh Hooda was elected to Lok Sabha from Rohtak.
Bittu, 48, had stop Congress and joined BJP forward of Lok Sabha elections. He contested from Ludhiana in Punjab as a BJP candidate however misplaced to Congress’ Amarinder Singh Raja Warring.Bittu is at present Union minister of state railway and meals processing industries. This seat fell vacant as a consequence of resignation of Congress’ Ok C Venugopal from Rajya Sabha membership after he was elected to Lok Sabha.
BJP additionally introduced George Kurian as its candidate for a Rajya Sabha seat from MP that grew to become vacant following Jyotiraditya Scindia’s election to Lok Sabha. Kurian, a member from Kerala and at present MoS for minority affairs, fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, is ready to win comfortably given BJP’s power within the MP meeting.
The social gathering fielded former BJD member Mamata Mohanta from Odisha who had additionally joined the social gathering not too long ago.
Based on a listing of 9 candidates launched by the social gathering, Manan Kumar Mishra will contest from Bihar, Dhairyashil Patil from Maharashtra and Rajib Bhattacharjee from Tripura.
The social gathering has fielded Mission Ranjan Das and ex-Union minister Rameswar Teli as its candidates from Assam.
Ten of those seats fell vacant as sitting members, together with Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Sarbananda Sonowal and Scindia, had been elected to Lok Sabha. Bypolls are additionally being held for 2 seats in Telangana and Odisha. Kiran Choudhry has been nominated from Haryana, practically two months after she switched sides from the Congress. Bypoll for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Haryana was necessitated after Congress’ Deepender Singh Hooda was elected to Lok Sabha from Rohtak.
