NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, MARCH 12
The Congress on Thursday declared 12 candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls, including party general secretary K C Venugopal, Deepender Hooda and senior Supreme Court advocate K T S Tulsi. From Gujarat, the party named Shaktisinh Gohil and Bharatsinh Solanki.
The Congress named Digvijaya Singh and Phool Singh Baraiya as candidates from Madhya Pradesh where a keen contest would take place in one out of three seats as the BJP has also announced two candidates – Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sumer Singh Solanki.
The Congress and the BJP, given their respective strength in the Assembly, can ensure an easy win for their one candidate, while a contest is on cards on the third seat.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi first approved the candidature of nine candidates for the March 26 Rajya Sabha polls, a party statement said.
Apart from Singh and Baraiya from Madhya Pradesh, the Congress named Tulsi and Phulo Devi Netam from Chhattisgarh, Shahzada Anwar from Jharkhand, Rajiv Satav from Maharashtra, Venugopal and Neeraj Dangi from Rajasthan and Kennedy Cornelius Khyriem from Meghalaya.
Later, the party issued another list of three more candidates – Hooda from Haryana, and Shaktisinh Gohil and Bharatsinh Solanki from Gujarat.
Turned down RS nomination offer from Gujarat to focus on organisational work: Rajeev Shukla
Senior Congress leader Rajiv Shukla on Thursday said he turned down the party’s offer of Rajya Sabha nomination from Gujarat as he wanted to focus on organisational work.
“I would like to thank Congress president Sonia ji for offering me Rajya Sabha nomination from Gujarat, but currently I am focusing on organisational work so requested her to nominate some other person in my place,” Shukla said in a tweet.
