BJP nominates JP Nadda, Ashok Chavan as Rajya Sabha candidates

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released a list of candidates for the Rajya Sabha Biennial elections in which party president JP Nadda has been nominated from Gujarat.

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who had recently joined BJP after quitting Congress, has been fielded from Maharashtra.

BJP's Medha Kulkarni has also been nominated from Maharashtra for the Rajya Sabha polls.


The BJP's latest list of candidates for the biennial Rajya Sabha polls has seven nominees -- four for Gujarat and three for Maharashtra.

Nadda is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Himachal Pradesh but the BJP does not have the numbers to win the lone seat from the Congress-ruled state.

Union ministers and outgoing Rajya Sabha members Mansukh Mandaviya and Parshottam Rupala, both from Gujarat, and Narayan Rane from Maharashtra have not been renominated amid a possibility that they may contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.