Narayan Rane among 18 BJP candidates announced for Rajya Sabha polls

Narayan RaneThe Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on Sunday announced the names of 18 candidates including former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from nine states The announcement came after the meeting of the BJPs Central Election Committee BJP General Secretary Saroj Pandey will contest from Chhattisgarh the partys Media Cell Convenor Anil Baluni from Uttarakhand and Lt General DP Vats retd from HaryanaIndependent Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be the BJP candidate from Karnataka In case he wins it will be his second term in the Rajya Sabha Earlier he was elected to the upper house as an Independent The party has nominated tribal leader Sameer Uranv to contest the March 23 Rajya Sabha polls from Jharkhand The highest number of seven candidates Ashok Bhajpai Vijay Pal Singh Tomar Sakal Deep Rajbhar Kanta Kardam Anil Jain GVL Narsimha Rao and Harnath Singh Yadav will contest from Uttar PradeshMadan Lal Saini and Kirori Lal Meena have been fielded from Rajasthan while Narayan Rane and V Muraleedharan Kerala will contest from Maharashtra Ajay Pratap Singh and Kailash Soni will contest from Madhya Pradesh On Wednesday the BJP had renominated to the Rajya Sabha all eight Union Ministers including Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar apart from its General Secretary and key strategist Bhupender Yadav from RajasthanWhile Jaitley was nominated from Uttar Pradesh Javadekar was shifted to his home state Maharashtra from Madhya Pradesh Jaitley is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was shifted to Madhya Pradesh from Bihar Voting to elect 58 members to the Rajya Sabha from different states will take place on March 23 The last date for filing nominations is March 12 March 15 is the last date for withdrawal of candidatureThere are 10 vacancies from Uttar Pradesh six each from Bihar and Maharashtra five each from Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal four each from Gujarat and Karnataka three each from Odisha Rajasthan Andhra Pradesh and Telangana two from Jharkhand and one each from Haryana Chhattisgarh Himachal Pradesh and UttarakhandCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis 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