Party chief Nitin Nabin to contest from Bihar
NEW DELHI, March 3: BJP national president Nitin Nabin was on Tuesday nominated as the party’s candidate from Bihar for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released a list of nine candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls.
The party is fielding its former West Bengal unit chief Rahul Sinha and Chhattisgarh unit vice-president Laxmi Verma from the respective states.
Assam PWD Minister Jogen Mohan and MLA Terash Gowalla will be the saffron party’s candidates for the elections to the Upper House of Parliament from the state.
The BJP has also nominated its Odisha unit president, Manmohan Samal, and leader Sujeet Kumar, an incumbent Rajya Sabha MP, as candidates from the state for the upcoming polls.BJP leader Shivesh Kumar will join the fray from Bihar and Sanjay Bhatia, a former Lok Sabha MP of the party, will be its candidate from Haryana. Kumar is Bihar BJP’s general secretary. (PTI)
