The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released its list of 16 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
The saffron party has fielded Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal from Karnataka and Maharashtra respectively.
Madhya Pradesh
Kavita Patidar
Karnataka
Nirmala Sitharaman
Jaggesh
Maharashtra
Piyush Goyal
Anil Sukhdevrao Bonde
Dhananjay Mahadik
Rajasthan
Ghanshyam Tiwari
Uttar Pradesh
Laxmikant Vajpayee
Radhamohan Aggarwal
Surendra Singh Nagar
Baburam Nishad
Darshana Singh
Sangeeta Yadav
Uttarakhand
Kalpana Saini
Bihar
Satish Chandra Dubey
Shambhu Sharan Patel
Haryana
Krishan Lal Panwar
Jharkhand
Aditya Sahu
The elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats will be held on June 10.
These seats are spread across 15 states and Union territories (UTs), including Haryana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, among others.
Earlier in the day, Odisha Chief Minister and ruling BJD president Naveen Patnaik announced names of four candidates of his party for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
The Biju Janata Dal named three new candidates - Sulata Deo, Manas Ranjan Mangaraj and Niranjan Bishi - and renominated Sasmit Patra for the polls to the Upper House of Parliament.
Besides, earlier this week, the Samajwadi Party announced its support to former Congress leader Kapil Sibal, who will contest the Rajya Sabha polls as an Independent candidate.
