RS Elections 2022: BJP releases list of 16 candidates; FM Sitharaman to contest from K'taka, Piyush Goyal from Maharastra

The BJP today released its list of 16 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, fielding Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal from Karnataka and Maharashtra respectively. The elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats will be held on June 10.

These seats are spread across 15 states and Union territories (UTs), including Haryana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, among others.

Of the 16 candidates, six are from Uttar Pradesh. The party has fielded two women -- Darshana Singh and Sangeeta Yadav -- from the state.


The party announced the names of two candidates each from Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bihar and one candidate each from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana. The name of BJP general secretary Dushyant Gautam, who was a Rajya Sabha member from Haryana, was missing from the first list of candidates.

The party has given ticket to former MLA Krishan Lal Panwar from Haryana.Kavita Patidar will be the party's nominee from Madhya Pradesh, Ghanshyam Tiwari from Rajasthan and Kalpana Saini from Uttarakhand.



Here is the complete list
Madhya Pradesh- Kavita Patidar
Karnataka -Nirmala Sitharaman, Jaggesh
Maharashtra -Piyush Goyal, Anil Sukhdevrao, Bonde Rajasthan, Ghanshyam Tiwari
Uttar Pradesh- Laxmikant Vajpayee, Radhamohan Aggarwal, Surendra Singh Nagar, Baburam Nishad, Darshana Singh Sangeeta Yadav
Uttarakhand - Kalpana Saini
Bihar- Satish Chandra Dubey Shambhu Sharan Patel
Haryana- Krishan Lal Panwar

Of the 65 Rajya Sabha seats that will fall vacant till March 2024, the Congress is almost certain to lose five of its existing upper house members while it may gain an equal number of seats. However, if the party can do well in the Gujarat assembly elections later this year, it has a chance of gaining a couple of seats from the state in August 2023.