NEW DELHI: Amid signs of an impending reshuffle in the Modi govt, the BJP on Thursday dropped all its sitting MPs, including two union ministers Ravneet Singh Bittu and George Kurian, while nominating 11 fresh faces for the upcoming RS polls in six states.
The last date of nominations for the June 18 elections is June 6.
The BJP kept its cards close to the chest in Karnataka, where the buzz surrounds former prime minister and JDS supremo HD Devegowda, whose tenure in the Upper House came to an end. While the BJP is expected to send the nonagenarian to the Rajya Sabha…
From Rajasthan, the party has nominated Haryana leader Satish Poonia, to counter Congress Rajasthan leader Govind Dotasara. To counter Sachin Pilot, the nominated Alka Gurjar, who is one of the two women in the list.
In Manipur, the BJP has named state president A Sharda Devi. and from Odisha, it has named Debashish Samantaray, who had just recently left the Biju Janata Dal as a sitting Rajya Sabha member.
Some other key BJP candidates are:
Arunachal Pradesh: Tai Tagak
Assam: Kanad Purkayastha
Gujarat: Rajubhai Shukla, Mukeshbhai Rathwa, Mansingh Parmar, and Jitendra Meghjibhai Kanzariya
Madhya Pradesh: Tarun Chugh and Rajneesh Agrawal
