RS polls: BJP Parliamentary Committee meets under Narendra Modi

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat BJP Parliamentary Committee held a meeting in state capital of Gandhinagar to finalise three names to be nominated to Rajya Sabha.

Gujarat has the quota of four seats out of 58 seats in the Upper House for which election will be held on March 30.

The MPs from Gujarat whose term is coming to end are Arun Jaitely, Kanji Patel, Vijay Rupani of the BJP and Pravinchnadra Rashtrapal of Congress.

The notification for the nominations for the March 30 polls will be issued tomorrow.

The meeting was held under the chairmanship of the party state unit president and in presence of chief minister Narendra Modi.

"During the meeting, names of potential candidates for the three seats were discussed and final list would be sent to party headquarters in Delhi," BJP spokesperson Jagdish Bhavsar told PTI without elaborating further.

When asked if the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitely would be renominated, a senior BJP member said that it would be decided in New Delhi. "Our work is to send the list of potential candidates".

Sources said, with BJP having a no-repeat policy for its candidates, renomination of Jaitely is in question.