BJP released the list of 9 Rajya Sabha candidates: Union Minister Ravneet Bittu from Rajasthan, George Kurien from MP and Kiran Chaudhary from Haryana are the candidates

The BJP released a list of 9 candidates for the Rajya Sabha by-election on Tuesday, 20 August. Kiran Chaudhary, who left Congress and joined BJP, will be the party’s candidate from Haryana. Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu has been nominated from Rajasthan and George Kurien from Madhya Pradesh. The last date for filing nominations for the Rajya Sabha elections is 21 August. See full list… Rajasthan: Union Minister Ravneet, grandson of former CM Beant Singh, lost the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab. Ravneet Bittu, who was a two-time MP from Ludhiana, left the Congress and joined the BJP before the Lok Sabha elections 2024. After joining the BJP, the party gave him a ticket from Ludhiana, but he had to face defeat by 20 thousand 942 votes from Congress candidate Amarinder Singh Raja Vading. Even after losing the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has made Bittu a Union Minister of State from Punjab. Read full news… Madhya Pradesh: George Kurien is from Kerala, the seat was vacant after Scindia’s resignation. BJP has fielded Kerala leader George Kurien as a candidate from a vacant Rajya Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh. Kurien is the Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry-Dairy Department in the Modi Cabinet. Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia left the Rajya Sabha seat in June after being elected Lok Sabha MP from Guna. Read full news Haryana: Former Congress leader Kiran Chaudhary resigns from MLA post, will file nomination tomorrow. Her name was unanimously approved in the BJP Legislature Party meeting on Tuesday. Now Kiran Chaudhary will file nomination for the Rajya Sabha by-election tomorrow at 10 am. Earlier on Tuesday morning, Kiran resigned from the membership of the Legislative Assembly. She is the daughter-in-law of former Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal. Kiran was angry over not getting a ticket from Congress for her daughter Shruti in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. After this, she broke her ties with Congress and joined BJP. Read full news Bihar: BJP candidate Maman Kumar Mishra is the President of Bar Council of India. After Lalu Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti and Vivek Thakur won the Lok Sabha elections from Bihar, both resigned from the Rajya Sabha. This has left 2 Rajya Sabha seats vacant. BJP has made Manan Kumar Mishra its candidate on one seat. Manan is the President of Bar Council of India. Upendra Kushwaha can file nomination on the second seat. There are 243 seats in Bihar Assembly. There is an NDA government here. BJP has 78 MLAs. JDU has 44 and HAM has 3 MLAs. INDIA Block’s RJD has 77 MLAs. Congress has 19 and CPI has 15 MLAs, while there is one AIMIM and two independent MLAs. There are four vacant seats here, on which by-elections are to be held. There is a difference of 14 seats between the parties of both the alliances. Cross voting can spoil the equation here. Read the full news… Assam: BJP is almost certain to win both seats. In Assam, BJP has made Mission Ranjan Das and Rameshwar Teli its candidates. There are a total of 126 assembly seats in Assam. BJP has 60 out of these. Elections are to be held for 2 Rajya Sabha seats here. BJP’s victory on both Rajya Sabha seats is almost certain. Maharashtra: BJP has made Patil its candidate, on the other seat Ajit Pawar’s NCP candidate will be Piyush Goyal and Udayanraje Bhosale from Maharashtra won the Lok Sabha elections and became MPs. Two Rajya Sabha seats have become vacant due to their resignation. BJP has declared Dhairyasheel Patil as its candidate on one seat. He is the South Raigad District BJP President. It is believed that Ajit Pawar’s NCP candidate will be on one seat. Ajit’s NCP has decided to give ticket to Nitin Patil, only formal announcement is pending. There is a coalition government of Eknath Shinde, Ajit Pawar and BJP in Maharashtra. There are 288 assembly seats here. NDA has 211 MLAs, including 103 from BJP, 40 from NCP (Ajit Pawar) and 38 from Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde). MVA has 37 Congress, 15 from Shiv Sena (UBT) and 12 from NCP (Sharad Pawar). BJP is likely to win from here. Odisha: Mamta, who joined BJP from BJD, made candidate Former Rajya Sabha MP Mamta Mohanta has been made a candidate by BJP from Odisha. She has joined BJP from Biju Janata Dal (BJD). She comes from the Kudumi community of Odisha. 48-year-old Mamta Mohanta was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Odisha as a member of Biju Janata Dal in March 2020. There are a total of 147 seats in the Legislative Assembly in Odisha. BJP has 78, BJD has 51 and Congress has 14 MLAs. BJP’s victory is almost certain. Tripura: BJP President Bhattacharya made candidate Tripura BJP President Rajib Bhattacharya has been declared the party’s candidate for Rajya Sabha. There are a total of 60 assembly seats here. BJP has 32 seats, and Congress and Left Alliance have got 14 seats. Tipra Motha Party has 13 seats. In such a situation, BJP’s victory is almost certain.
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