Elections for 56 Rajya Sabha seats spread across 15 states are scheduled to be held on February 27, and the last date for filing nominations is February 15. The name of BJP president J P Nadda, whose term from Himachal Pradesh is coming to an end, is not on the list.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday named 14 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls including former Union minister R P N Singh and Sudhanshu Trivedi the only outgoing MP renominated by the party.
R P N Singh, who comes from the politically important Kurmi caste, was in the Congress before joining the BJP. He was a minister in the Congress-led UPA government.
The BJP on Sunday named 14 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls including former Union minister R P N Singh and outgoing MP Sudhanshu Trivedi from Uttar Pradesh and its Uttarakhand unit president Mahendra Bhatt from the hill state.
None of the Union ministers, whose terms are coming to an
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