'Am I less deserving': Congress's Nagma reacts after being denied Rajya Sabha seat

A day after Congress announced its Rajya Sabha nominees actorturnedpolitician Nagma on Monday expressed her discontent over not getting a berth in the Upper House of the parliamentTaking to Twitter Nagma said Sonia Ji our Congress president had personally committed to accommodating me in RS in 200304 when I joined Congress party on her behest We were not in power then Since then it is been 18 years they did not find an opportunity Mr Imran is accommodated in RS from Maharashtra I ask am I less deservingSoniaJi our Congress president had personally committed to accommodating me in RS in 200304 whn I joined Congressparty on her behest we werenrsquot in power thnSince then itrsquos been 18Yrs they dint find an opportunity Mr Imran is accommodated in RS frm Maha I ask am I less deservingmdash Nagma nagma_morarji May 30 2022Our 18 years of penance also fell short in front of Imran Bhai she said earlierThe Congress party on Sunday announced the names of 10 candidates from seven states for the Rajya Sabha elections scheduled to take place on June 10 The names of many prominent leaders are missing from the list leading to voices of dissatisfaction rising in the partyRandeep Singh Surjewala Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari have been made candidates from Rajasthan All these three leaders do not belong to RajasthanCongress MLA from Sirohi in Rajasthan Sanyam Lodha raised the question why no one has been nominated from Rajasthan The Congress party should tell what is the reason for not making any Congress leaderworker from Rajasthan a candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections he wrote in a tweet on SundayPawan Kheda who hails from Rajasthan was a contender for Rajya Sabha in Congress But his name is also not included in the list After the release of the list he tweeted Maybe there is something missing in my penanceThe Congress on Sunday opted for apparently lightweight candidates like Imran Pratapgarhi and Ranjeet Ranjan for the Rajya Sabha polls contrary to speculation about accommodating veterans Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma Pratapgarhi the partys minority department chairperson and a poet from Uttar Pradesh has been fielded from MaharashtraMeanwhile Rajasthan BJP chief Satish Poonia also took a jibe at the Congress party He tweeted in Hindi and wrote Congresss Chintan Shivir took place in Rajasthan Now look at another achievement of this thinking Observe the quota of local candidateswithout local who will be vocalThe Congress party has fielded Rajeev Shukla Ajay Maken and Jairam Ramesh from Chhattisgarh Haryana and Karnataka respectivelyP Chidambaram who is an MP in the Rajya Sabha has once again been given a run from Tamil Nadu while Ranjeet Ranjan has been fielded from Chhattisgarh The party has fielded Vivek Tankha as a candidate from Madhya PradeshReacting to the list coincharge of Gujarat Congress Jitendra Baghel asked on Twitter Would you tell us how many of these candidates are from OBCSCSTCongress interim president Sonia Gandhi has approved them as the Congress candidates to contest the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from the states a statement read duly signed by General Secretary Mukul WasnikElections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats spread across 15 states will take place on June 10This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever