Elections for 57 seats of Rajya Sabha will be held on June 10. For this, 10 members have been nominated by the Congress. On the other hand, if we look at the names of Congress candidates, it is known that these names have been chosen by the Gandhi family. In which Sonia Gandhi chose P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, while the name of Imran Pratapgarhi, who is said to be a supporter of Priyanka Gandhi, is also included in this.
Apart from this, veteran Congress leaders Rajiv Shukla and Pramod Tiwari are also in this list. Apart from Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka’s favorite, Rahul Gandhi put his stamp on the names of others including Ranjeet Ranjan.
Who from where: Congress has fielded Ranjit Ranjan and Rajiv Shukla from Chhattisgarh. On the other hand, Jairam Ramesh from Karnataka, Vivek Tankha from Madhya Pradesh, Ajay Maken from Haryana, Imran Pratapgarhi from Maharashtra, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari from Rajasthan and P Chidambaram from Tamil Nadu.
Randeep Surjewala has been nominated as a Rajya Sabha member not from his home state Haryana but from Rajasthan, despite complaints in the Congress about making outsiders as candidates in comparison to state leaders. Surjewala is believed to have taken this decision sensing the troubles of his old rival Bhupinder Hooda and swapped places with Ajay Maken.
It is noteworthy that in Chhattisgarh, Congress candidates Rajiv Shukla and Ranjeet Ranjan have been elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha. Let us tell you that before this Rajiv Shukla has been a Rajya Sabha MP for three times. Ranjeet Ranjan is a former Lok Sabha MP from Bihar. After becoming a Rajya Sabha member, there have been three women Rajya Sabha members from the state.
Rajya Sabha elections on how many seats in which state: On June 10, a total of 57 seats of Rajya Sabha will be elected. In this, there are two seats each from Punjab, Haryana, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and one seat from Uttarakhand. At the same time, elections will be held on three seats each in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Apart from this, 4-4 seats are included in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan, 5 seats in Bihar, 6-6 seats in Maharashtra and 11 seats in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.