Lucknow. The Bharatiya Janata Party is eyeing ten seats for the elections to the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on November 9 in Uttar Pradesh. The list of the most awaited candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the elections to ten seats has been released on Monday, one day before the last date of nomination. The BJP has started preparing to win eight out of ten seats according to the strength of MLAs.
In the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata Party has released a list of eight candidates from Uttar Pradesh, defending it directly from voting. Apart from keeping the caste balance, the party has also given a chance to new faces like Brijlal, Geeta Shakya and BL Verma. BJP has decided to re-send Neeraj Shekhar, son of former Prime Minister late Chandrashekhar, along with Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, BJP National General Secretary General and Central Office In-Charge Arun Singh to Rajya Sabha. BL Verma, Chairman of Social Welfare Construction Corporation, close to retired DGP Brijlal and former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, has also been nominated. Former Minister Haridwar Dubey and former MLA Seema Dwivedi are being sent to Rajya Sabha. Leadership through Auraiya’s militant leader Geeta Shakya has provided representation to Bundelkhand besides fulfilling women and backward quota. BJP has expressed its intention not to go straight into the voting battle by taking out eight candidates. All the candidates will file their nomination papers on Tuesday.
Elections are proposed in ten seats in Uttar Pradesh, in which the BJP MLA has eight candidates. After putting one candidate each in the SP and BSP grounds, now a total of 10 candidates will be in the field. In such a situation, there will be an uncontested election if no innocent candidate comes to the field.
The term of 10 Rajya Sabha MPs from Uttar Pradesh is going to end in November. These leaders include BJP’s Arun Singh, Neeraj Shekhar, Hardeep Singh Puri, Samajwadi Party’s Javed Ali Khan, Ram Gopal Yadav, Chandrapal Singh Yadav, Ravi Prakash Verma, BSP’s Rajaram, Veer Singh, Congress’s PL Punia.
Bansal’s chance in Uttarakhand
The BJP has announced Naresh Bansal as its candidate for the elections to the Rajya Sabha seat of Uttarakhand. Bansal’s election is scheduled for the election to be held after the completion of Rajabbar’s tenure of the Congress.
The Election Commission of India had announced the election for 10 seats in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh on 13 October. The election notification for these ten seats has been issued on October 20. The tenure of ten Rajya Sabha members of the state ends on 25 November. According to the announced schedule, nominations will be filled by October 27. The nomination papers will be scrutinized on 28 October. Names can be withdrawn by November 2. Voting will be held on November 9 from 9 am to 4 pm. The counting of votes will take place on the same day from 5 pm and the results will be declared.
Nominations filed for Ram Gopal of SP and Ramji Gautam of BSP
As soon as the announcement of Rajya Sabha elections was announced, the Samajwadi Party was the first Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav was declared his candidate. They have filed their nomination papers. After this Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Ramji Gautam filed nomination papers on Monday.
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