NDA castes the Rajya Sabha polls carefully
THE JD(U) on Wednesday named national spokesman Shivanand Tiwari and Bihar planning board chairman N K Singh as candidates for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha biennial polls.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: THE JD(U) on Wednesday named national spokesman Shivanand Tiwari and Bihar planning board chairman N K Singh as candidates for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha biennial polls. It also nominated Mohd Ejaz Ali, a pasmanda Muslim leader, for the RS by-election.
In the process, the JD(U) leadership ignored claims of Muslim hardliner Syed Shahabuddin. Mr Ali will be a Rajya Sabha MP for two years.
JD(U)���s ticket-distribution for the RS, and the Bihar legislative council elections were on expected lines, with the party attempting a deft caste balancing. While the RS tickets were allotted to a Brahmin and Thakur, the party���s nominees for the legislative council polls included three OBCs and a Muslim.
In keeping with his political project of wooing the poorer and more backward among OBCs, chief minister Nitish Kumar cleared the names of former MLA Ramdhani Singh, Satish Prasad, party���s Nalanda district president Hira Bind and Haroon Rashid for the legislative council elections. While Mr Singh is a Kurmi, like the chief minister, Mr Prasad and Mr Bind are EBCs.
JD(U) alliance partner BJP had on Tuesday nominated former Union minister C P Thakur, a Bhumihar, as its candidate for its ���quota��� of Rajya Sabha seat. The BJP granted seats to Mr Giriraj Singh, another Bhumihar, and Mr Kameshwar Chaupal, a Dalit, for the legislative council.
Of the five full-term Rajya Sabha seats that are up for grabs from Bihar, the JD(U)-BJP combine, which has a strength of 144 in the 243-member assembly, can win three. RJD, which has 54 seats in the House, is in a position to win just one seat.
In the process, the JD(U) leadership ignored claims of Muslim hardliner Syed Shahabuddin. Mr Ali will be a Rajya Sabha MP for two years.
JD(U)���s ticket-distribution for the RS, and the Bihar legislative council elections were on expected lines, with the party attempting a deft caste balancing. While the RS tickets were allotted to a Brahmin and Thakur, the party���s nominees for the legislative council polls included three OBCs and a Muslim.
In keeping with his political project of wooing the poorer and more backward among OBCs, chief minister Nitish Kumar cleared the names of former MLA Ramdhani Singh, Satish Prasad, party���s Nalanda district president Hira Bind and Haroon Rashid for the legislative council elections. While Mr Singh is a Kurmi, like the chief minister, Mr Prasad and Mr Bind are EBCs.
JD(U) alliance partner BJP had on Tuesday nominated former Union minister C P Thakur, a Bhumihar, as its candidate for its ���quota��� of Rajya Sabha seat. The BJP granted seats to Mr Giriraj Singh, another Bhumihar, and Mr Kameshwar Chaupal, a Dalit, for the legislative council.
Of the five full-term Rajya Sabha seats that are up for grabs from Bihar, the JD(U)-BJP combine, which has a strength of 144 in the 243-member assembly, can win three. RJD, which has 54 seats in the House, is in a position to win just one seat.
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