SP’s Jaya Bachchan, Ramji Lal Suman and Alok Ranjan file papers for Rajya Sabha
LUCKNOW: 4-time Rajya Sabha member Jaya Bachchan, Dalit chief Ramji Lal Suman, and former Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Alok Ranjan on Tuesday filed their nomination papers as Samajwadi Occasion (SP) candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections, individuals conversant in the matter stated.
Samajwadi Occasion MPs Dimple Yadav and Jaya Bachchan throughout the prayer of Shaligram Shila for Dudheshwar Mahadev Temple, Etawah, at celebration headquarters, in Lucknow on Feb 13. (PTI)
The SP has the numbers to ship three members to the Rajya Sabha. The Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) on Sunday introduced the names of the seven candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections.
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Ten Rajya Sabha seats from UP are falling vacant on April 2 when 9 BJP members and one SP member will retire.
The final date for the submitting of the nomination for the polls is February 15. Polling, if required, will likely be held on February 27 and the outcomes will likely be introduced on the identical day.
An election will likely be held for these seats if any celebration names any extra candidates over the ten already introduced by the BJP and SP.
Other than Jaya Bachchan, the opposite two SP members within the Rajya Sabha are Ram Gopal Yadav and Javed Ali Khan.
A candidate would want 37 first choice votes to safe a seat within the Rajya Sabha and thus the SP would comfortably be capable of ship 3 members to the Rajya Sabha.
Jaya Bachchan, 75, is a four-time Samajwadi Occasion Rajya Sabha member and will likely be solely second SP chief to get a fifth time period. The primary was the chief nationwide basic secretary, Ram Gopal Yadav who’s at the moment serving his fifth time period. Jaya Bachchan, an actor, is the spouse of the actor Amitabh Bachchan.
Alok Ranjan, 67, is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who served as Uttar Pradesh’s chief secretary between 2014 and 2016 when Akhilesh Yadav was the UP chief minister. An alumnus of Stephen’s Faculty, Delhi, the retired bureaucrat additionally did his MBA from the Indian Institute of Administration-Ahmedabad. He has been related to the Samajwadi Occasion since 2017 and is a part of the celebration’s suppose tank.
Ramji Lal Suman, 73, is a distinguished Dalit chief and a four-time Lok Sabha member from Firozabad. Suman, who additionally unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections from Hathras seat in 2014 and 2019, has been a long-time affiliate of SP founder, late Mulayam Singh Yadav since their days within the Janata Dal. He’s thought-about a distinguished Dalit chief and wields affect in Firozabad, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Hathras, and Aligarh.
