List of Congress Rajya Sabha candidates: Kharge, Pawan Khera nominated from Karnataka, Praveen Chakravarty from Tamil Nadu. Today’s news
After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress today announced the names of candidates for the upcoming biennial and Rajya Sabha bye-elections. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera and Mansoor Ali Khan were nominated from Karnataka. The party also nominated one candidate each for Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand.
List of Congress Rajya Sabha candidates
Here is the list of Congress candidates for the upcoming biennial Rajya Sabha and by-polls.
Karnataka: Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera and Mansoor Ali Khan
Madhya Pradesh: Meenakshi Natarajan
Tamil Nadu: Praveen Chakravarty
Rajya Sabha elections for 24 seats in 10 states will be held on June 18. This includes four seats in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, three seats in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, two seats in Jharkhand and one seat each in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur and Meghalaya. Submission of nominations has begun, the deadline is June 8.
Upper House by-polls for one seat in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Odisha will also be held on the same day.
The deadline for submitting nominations is June 8.
BJP names 11 candidates for Rajya Sabha polls in 5 states
The BJP Central Election Committee, which has released the names of 11 candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls in five states, has fielded Debashish Samantaray as its candidate from Odisha.
BJP fielded Tai Tagak from Arunachal Pradesh; Rajubhai Shukla, Mukeshbhai Rathwa, Mansingh Parmar and Jitendra Meghjibhai Kanzariya from Gujarat; Tarun Chugh and Rajneesh Agrawal from Madhya Pradesh; Sharda Devi from Manipur; and Alka Gurjar and Satish Poonia from Rajasthan.
The BJP has fielded its Manipur president A Sharda Devi as its candidate from the state and senior party leader Tai Tagak from Arunachal Pradesh, according to a list released by party general secretary Arun Singh.
TDP wins 3, Jana Sena one Rajya Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh
The NDA alliance in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday decided to allot three of the four upcoming Rajya Sabha seats from the state’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP), while ally Jana Sena will field a candidate for the remaining seat, PTI reported.
The decision was taken at a meeting of NDA components comprising TDP, Jana Sena and BJP held in Amaravati.
“We have decided that the TDP will take three Rajya Sabha seats and one for the Jana Sena,” Andhra Pradesh TDP president Palla Srinivasa Rao said after the meeting.
