Nominations filing for Rajya Sabha polls ends; Check full list of candidates here

BJP chief J P Nadda, Ashok Chavan, a recent addition to the party, and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi are among the candidates competing in the Rajya Sabha elections, as the deadline for submitting nominations concluded on Thursday.

The biennial elections are scheduled on February 27 in 56 seats - 10 in Uttar Pradesh, six each in Maharashtra and Bihar, five each in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, four each in Gujarat and Karnataka, three each in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan and Odisha, and one each in Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

However, a majority of the candidates are likely to get elected unopposed. February 20 is the last date of withdrawing candidature. Voting is scheduled to take place from 9 am to 4 pm on February 27 and the counting will be held on the same day from 5 pm onwards.


Here is the complete list of all the candidates:

Uttar Pradesh:

Candidate	Party
R P N Singh	BJP
Chaudhary Tejveer Singh	BJP
Amarpal Maurya	BJP
Sangeeta Balwant	BJP
Sudhanshu Trivedi	BJP
Sadhna Singh	BJP
Naveen Jain	BJP
Sanjay Seth	BJP
Jaya Bachchan	SP
Ramjilal Suman	SP
Alok Ranjan	SP

Gujarat:

Candidate	Party
JP Nadda	BJP
Jashvantsinh Parmar	BJP
Mayank Nayak	BJP
Govind Dholakia	BJP

Rajasthan:

Candidate	Party
Sonia Gandhi	Congress
Chunnilal Garasiya	BJP
Madan Rathore	BJP

Maharashtra:

Candidate	Party
Ashok Chavan	BJP
Medha Kulkarni	BJP
Ajit Gopchhade	BJP
Milind Deora	Shiv Sena
Chandrakant Handore	Congress
Praful Patel	NCP

Odisha:

Ashwini Vaishnaw	BJP
Debashish Samantaray	BJD
Subhasish Khuntia	BJD

Madhya Pradesh:

L Murugan	BJP
Dalit seer Umesh Nath Maharaj	BJP
Maya Naroliya	BJP
Banshilal Gurjar	BJP
Ashok Singh	Congress

Karnataka:

Candidate	Party
Ajay Maken	Congress
Naseer Hussain	Congress
G C Chandrasekhar	Congress
Narayana Krishanasa Bhandage	BJP

West Bengal:

Candidate	Party
Sagarika Ghose	TMC
Sushmita Dev	TMC
Mohammad Nadimul Haque	TMC
Mamta Bala Thakur	TMC
Samik Bhattacharya	BJP

Himachal Pradesh:

Candidate	Party
Abhishek Manu Singhvi	Congress

Telangana:

Candidate	Party
Renuka Chowdhury	Congress
M Anil Kumar Yadav	Congress

Bihar:

Candidate	Party
Akhilesh Prasad Singh	Congress
Manoj Kumar Jha	RJD
Sanjay Yadav	RJD
Sanjay Kumar Jha	JDU
Bhim Singh	BJP
Dharamsheela Gupta	BJP

Chhattisgarh:

Candidate	Party
Devendra Pratap Singh	BJP

Haryana:

Candidate	Party
Subhash Barala	BJP

Uttarakhand:

Candidate	Party
Mahendra Bhatt	BJP

Andhra Pradesh:

Candidate	Party
Gola Babu Rao	YSRCP
YV Subba Reddy	YSRCP
Meda Raghunath Reddy	YSRCP