Rajya Sabha elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has in the present day (February 11) introduced its candidates from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
Sudhanshu Trivedi, RPN Singh, Subhash Barala, Mahendra Bhatt, and different candidates are nominated from seven states of India. Former Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala was introduced because the social gathering’s candidate from Haryana.
BJP on Sunday named 14 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls together with former Union minister RPN 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 phrases are coming to an finish, have been named within the record amid a robust risk that lots of them will contest the Lok Sabha polls. However, the social gathering is but to call many candidates.
Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who represents Karnataka in Rajya Sabha, and BJP chief spokesperson and media head Anil Baluni, the outgoing MP from Uttarakhand, haven’t been nominated. Both could also be fielded by the social gathering within the Lok Sabha polls, sources stated.
Senior Bihar chief Sushil Kumar Modi’s destiny hangs in a steadiness as his title didn’t determine among the many candidates named by the social gathering. Bihar has six vacancies and each the ruling NDA and the opposition are more likely to win three seats every, going by their present strengths. The JD(U), a BJP ally, is more likely to title its candidate for one seat.
RPN Singh, who comes from the politically necessary Kurmi caste, was within the Congress earlier than becoming a member of the BJP. Former Haryana BJP president Subhash Barala would be the social gathering’s candidate from the state.
When RS polls will happen?
Elections for 56 Rajya Sabha seats unfold throughout 15 states are scheduled to be held on February 27 (Tuesday), and the final date for submitting nominations is February 15 (Thursday). The RS phrases of Okay Ravindra Kumar (TDP), CM Ramesh (BJP) and V Prabhakar Reddy (YSRCP) from Andhra Pradesh will finish quickly.
TMC names journalist Sagarika Ghose, Sushmita Dev for RS polls
The Trinamool Congress in the present day introduced the names of journalist Sagarika Ghose, social gathering chief Sushmita Dev and two others for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from the state. Elections to the 5 Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal shall be held on February 27.
“We are pleased to announce the candidature of @sagarikaghose, @SushmitaDevAITC, @MdNadimulHaque6 and Mamata Bala Thakur for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections”, the social gathering posted on X.
“We extend our heartfelt wishes to them and may they work towards upholding Trinamool’s enduring legacy of indomitable spirit and advocacy for the rights of every Indian”, it stated.
While Nadimul Haque, a two-time Rajya Sabha MP, finds himself again within the limelight, the choice to not renominate three sitting MPs- Subhasish Chakraborty, Abir Biswas, and Santanu Sen- marks a notable shift within the social gathering’s technique.
Ghose, a famend journalist, is but to formally be a part of the TMC. Former Congress chief Dev, who had joined the TMC in 2021, has been the social gathering’s Rajya Sabha MP from October 2021 to August 2023, after TMC chief Manas Bhunia vacated the seat to affix the West Bengal cupboard.
Dev, who can also be TMC’s nationwide spokesperson, takes care of the social gathering’s affairs in Assam. However, the nomination that is captured vital consideration is that of former Lok Sabha MP and Matua chief Mamata Bala Thakur. A two-time Lok Sabha MP, Thakur confronted defeat within the Matua-dominated Bongaon seat to BJP’s Shantanu Thakur, a relative, in 2019.
Thakur’s nomination comes amidst BJP’s efforts to courtroom the Matua neighborhood with guarantees of implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) forward of the Lok Sabha polls. The Matua neighborhood’s cohesive voting behaviour makes them a vital voting bloc, significantly aligned with the BJP’s stance on the CAA.
Riding on the guarantees of the CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the Matua neighborhood performed a pivotal position within the saffron surge within the state through the 2019 elections. Expressing gratitude for the chance to serve the lots, veteran journalist Nadimul Haque acknowledged the help of TMC leaders Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee.
“I thank our party supremo Mamata Banerjee and general secretary Abhishek Banerjee for providing me this opportunity for the third time to serve the masses,” he stated.
With the TMC having fun with a cushty majority of 217 within the 294-member meeting, together with the help of six BJP MLAs who defected to the ruling social gathering however are but to resign, the social gathering’s dominance within the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections appears assured. Though the official tally of the BJP within the meeting is 74, unofficially it’s 68, owing to defections.
As per the power within the meeting, out of the 5 Rajya Sabha seats, the TMC is about to assert 4, whereas the BJP will safe the fifth.
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