New Delhi, May 29 (FN Agency) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced a list of 16 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been nominated from Karnataka, while Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has been nominated from Maharashtra.
From Uttar Pradesh, where 11 Rajya Sabha seats are going vacant, BJP has announced six nominees – Laxmikant Vajpayee, Radha Mohan Agarwal, Surendra Nagar, Baburam Nishad, Darshana Singh, Sangeeta Yadav Also in the list are Anil Bonde from Maharashtra, Ghanshyam Tiwari from Rajasthan, Jaggesh from Karnataka, Kavita Patidar, Kalpana Saini from Uttarakhand, Satish Chandra Dubey and Shambhu Sharan Patel from Bihar, and Krishna Lal Panwar from Haryana. Rajya Sabha elections for 57 seats spread across 15 states are scheduled to take place on June 10.