Rajya Sabha elections: BJP announces two candidates from Rajasthan

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today announced the names of candidates from Rajasthan for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections. 

The BJP annouced the names of Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore as its Rajya Sabha election candidates. 

The announcement comes a day after the saffron party announced candidates from seven states for the Rajya Sabha. 

The candidates announced by the saffron party yesterday are for Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. 

From Bihar, Dr Dharmsheela Gupta and Dr Bhim Singh have been nominated for the Rajya Sabha polls. 

From Chhattisgarh, the saffron party has named Raja Devendra Paratpa Singh as its candidate. 

From Karnataka, the BJP has named Narayana Krishanasa Bhandage as its candidate. 

From Uttar Pradesh, seven candidates have been nominated for the Rajya Sabha polls. These include senior BJP leaders RPN Singh and Sudhanshu Trivedi. The others are Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, Sadhna Singh, Amarpal Maurya, Dr Sangita Balwant and Navin Jain. 

Coming to Uttarakhand, the BJP has nominated Mahendra Bhatt as its candidate. 

And lastly from West Bengal, the saffron party has nominated Samik Bhattacharya as its Rajya Sabha candidate.