Ganesan is a former Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha. He replaced the former union minister Najma Heptulla as a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh.
The speculations about Naqvi being possibly projected as the party’s V-P candidate started ever since he was denied the Rajya Sabha ticket. A section of media had then reported that he may soon be appointed as the new Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, as part of BJP’s outreach to Muslims.
Naqvi won the Lok Sabha elections for the first time in 1998 and was made Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
With Naqvi's resignation on Wednesday and his Rajya Sabha term ending a day later, there will be no Muslim face in the Union council of ministers or the BJP's 395 members of parliament.