BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda, former Maharashtra chief minister and Congress leader Ashok Chavan, who joined the party yesterday, and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw are among the party candidates for the Rajya Sabha Biennial elections.
Nadda will fight from Gujarat along with Govindbhai Dholakia, Mayanakbhai Nayak, and Dr Jashvantsinh Salamsinh from the state, said party’s National General Secretary Arun Singh in a press release on Wednesday.
Chavan, who joined the BJP on Tuesday after resigning from the Congress a day before, is the party nominee from Maharashtra. The other two candidates fielded from the state are Megha Kulkarni and Dr Ajit Gopchhade.
Vaishnaw is a BJP candidate from Odisha. The ruling BJD in the state has announced support to his candidature as it had done last time signaling a tacit understanding between the two parties. It is going to be a repeat of the 2019 RS polls in the state when Vaishnaw was sent to the Upper House with the wholehearted support of the regional party.
The saffron party fielded Dr. L Murugan, Umesh Nath Maharaj, Maya Naroliya, and Bansilal Gurjar from Madhya Pradesh.
Elections to 56 Rajya Sabha seats in 15 states are scheduled to be held on February 27. The last date for filing the nomination is February 15.