BJP’s 16 Rajya Sabha candidates from 8 states: The first list of candidates for the election came out, Nirmala Sitharaman from Karnataka, Piyush Goyal from Maharashtra

Bharatiya Janata Party has released its candidate list for next month’s Rajya Sabha elections. The BJP has announced 16 candidates so far. BJP has nominated Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as its candidate from Karnataka. At the same time, Piyush Goyal and Dr. Anil Sukhdevrao have been given ticket from Maharashtra, Kavita Partydar from Madhya Pradesh, Ghanshyam Tiwari from Rajasthan.

Apart from Nirmala Sitharaman from Karnataka, Mr. Jaggesh’s name has been announced. The party has fielded Laxmikant Bajpai, Radha Mohan Agarwal, Surendra Singh Nagar, Baburam Nishad, Darshana Singh, Sangeeta Yadav, Kalpana Saini from Uttarakhand, Satish Chandra Dubey, Shambhu Sharan Patel from Bihar and Krishan Lal Panwar from Haryana.

Elections to 57 seats of Rajya Sabha are due on June 10. Whereas the last date for nomination is 31 May.