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Highlights
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The BJP on Sunday announced 16 candidates for the June 10 Rajya Sabha polls, fielding Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman from Maharashtra and Karnataka respectively.
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Of the 16 candidates, six are from Uttar Pradesh.
- The party has fielded two women — Darshana Singh and Sangeeta Yadav — from the state.
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The party announced the names of two candidates each from Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bihar and one candidate each from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana.
- The name of BJP general secretary Dushyant Gautam, who was a Rajya Sabha member from Haryana, was missing from the first list of candidates.
- The party has given ticket to former MLA Krishan Lal Panwar from Haryana.
- Kavita Patidar will be the party’s nominee from Madhya Pradesh, Ghanshyam Tiwari from Rajasthan and Kalpana Saini from Uttarakhand.
- From Bihar, the party has fielded Satish Chandra Dubey and Shambhu Sharan Patel.
- Anil Sukhdevrao Bonde has been nominated from Maharashtra and Jaggesh from Karnataka, according to a BJP release.