The last-minute entry of two media giants enjoying the BJP’s support has hampered the Congress from getting all its candidates elected to the Rajya Sabha, with the ruling party taking into account caste equations in the distribution of its tickets. kept in. Elections to the Upper House of Parliament. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced 22 candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections, more than half of whom are OBCs and SCs, two caste categories the party consistently reaches.
Though the party’s list of Rajya Sabha candidates includes names of Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman, some other prominent names such as minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and senior leaders Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and OP Mathur are missing. Senior BJP leader and former cabinet minister Prakash Javadekar’s name was earlier wrongly included in the missing list. His current Rajya Sabha term is till 2024.
The saffron party has fielded eight candidates from Uttar Pradesh, three each from Maharashtra and Karnataka, two each from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh and one each from Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Haryana. It will support two independent candidates – Subhash Chandra from Rajasthan and Kartikeya Sharma from Haryana. BJP has extra votes in both the states.
The BJP’s ally in Haryana, the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), has also announced its support for the candidature of Sharma, who is expected to get nine additional votes for the saffron party, 10 for the JJP and then eight independent votes. Supporting the BJP-JJP government in the state. Similarly, the BJP has 30 additional votes in Rajasthan, where a candidate needs 41 votes to be elected to the Rajya Sabha.
Chandra met former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in the assembly lobby earlier in the day. His term as Rajya Sabha MP from Haryana will end on August 1. Voting will be held on June 10 for 57 Rajya Sabha seats in several states.
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