Samajwadi Party Nominates Amar Singh For Rajya Sabha Seat

The decision came after a party meeting at Samajwadi party chief Mulayam Singh’s residence.

• Six years after his expulsion from the party , the Samajwadi Party nominated Amar Singh for a Rajya Sabha seat on 17 May. Also in the list of proposed candidates for the Rajya Sabha is Beni Prasad Verma.
  
• The decision came after a party meeting with senior leaders at party chief Mulayam Singh’s residence.
  
• Ranvijay Singh and Kamlesh Pathak are nominated for Legislative Council polls. Others include Balram Yadav, Shatrudra Prakash, Yashwant Singh, Bukkal Nawab, Ram Sundar Das and Jagjivan Ram.
  

• Party leader Ram Gopal Verma told the media that the Parliamentary Board has authorised Mulayam Singh to take decision on candidates who will contest for Rajya Sabha and MLC seats.
  
• The Governor, however, said that under the Constitution, MLCs are to be nominated from five fields – literature, art, science, cooperative movement and social service, and that the nominees belonged to none of these categories.

(With agency inputs)