The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday, 11 March, announced the names of party's candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, confirming Jyotiraditya Scindia’s candidature from Madhya Pradesh.
Here is the complete list of candidates nominated by the BJP:
- Assam - Bhubaneswar Kalita
- Bihar - Vivek Thakur
- Gujarat - Abhay Bharadwaj and Ramilaben Bara
- Jharkhand - Deepak Prakash
- Manipur - Liesemba Maharaja
- Maharashtra - Udayanraje Bhonsle
- Rajasthan - Rajendra Gehlot
- Madhya Pradesh - Jyotiraditya Scindia
Candidates from allied parties:
- Maharashtra - Ramdas Athawale (Republican Party of India)
- Assam - Biswajit Daimary (Bodoland People's Front)
Scindia, who joined the BJP on Wednesday, will file his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha polls from Bhopal on Friday, said Madhya Pradesh BJP Media Cell in-charge Lokendra Parashar, reported PTI.
Scindia quit the Congress on Tuesday and joined the BJP on Wednesday, saying the former is not the party it used to be and there is no room for new leadership in it. Following his lead, 22 MLAs also submitted their resignations.
However, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh claimed that 13 out of 22 rebel MLAs in Madhya Pradesh have assured him that they are not leaving the Congress, PTI reported.
Meanwhile, in a bid to keep its flock together, the crisis-hit Madhya Pradesh Congress has decided to shift its 95 MLAs to Jaipur.
The 15-month-old Kamal Nath government was pushed to the brink on Tuesday with 22 MLAs loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia tendering their resignations to Raj Bhavan.
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