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  • Rajya Sabha Polls: BJP Nominates JP Nadda From Gujarat, Ashok Chavan From Maharashtra |

    New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released another list of seven names for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, nominating party president JP Nadda from Gujarat and newly inducted leader Ashok Chavan from Maharashtra. In its latest list, the BJP has declared four names from Gujarat and three from Maharashtra. Besides JP Nadda, the BJP nominated Govindbhai Dholakia, Mayanbhai Nayak and Jashvantsinh Parmar from Gujarat.

    For Maharashtra, besides Ashok Chavan, the party has named Medha Kulkarni and Ajit Gopchhade. Former Maharashtra chief minister Chavan quit Congress earlier this week and joined the BJP in the presence of deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday.

    Meanwhile, Nadda, who is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Himachal Pradesh, is being fielded from Gujarat since the BJP does not have the numbers to win the lone seat in the Congress-ruled hill state.

    Earlier today, the BJP announced that it’s nominating Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw from Odisha and L Murugan from Madhya Pradesh for the upcoming elections. On Sunday, the BJP named 14 candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls, including former Union Minister R P N Singh and party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi.

    The last day for filing nomination papers is February 15. The term for Rajya Sabha MPs is six years and elections are held after every two years for 33 per cent of the seats. Currently, the Rajya Sabha has a strength of 245 members.

    Out of the total 245 members, out of which 233 are representatives of the States and Union Territories of Delhi, Puducherry Jammu and Kashmir (w.e.f. 31.10. 2019) 12 are nominated by the President. Based on population, each state is allocated a certain number of candidates in the Upper House.

    Members of the state legislative assemblies choose Rajya Sabha members through an indirect election system of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote.

    The Election Commission has scheduled the Rajya Sabha elections for 15 states, including Uttar Pradesh, for February 27. Voting will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on this date, with the deadline for nominations set for February 15. The results of the elections will be announced on the same day, February 27. The Election Commission has announced the biennial Rajya Sabha polls on February 27 for 56 seats, as the tenure of incumbents ends in April. 

  • Chhatrapati Shivaji row: Transfer Koshyari out, appoint new guv, says ex-CM Ashok Chavan

    By means of PTI

    NANDED: Congress chief and previous leader minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday stated a brand new governor will have to be appointed for Maharashtra and Bhagat Singh Koshyari will have to be got rid of from his administrative center for his commentary on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

    Chavan was once chatting with newshounds after an agitation staged through Congress employees towards the governor in Nanded. All through an match in Aurangabad, Koshyari stated that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was once an icon of the “olden days.”

    The remark has induced a political hurricane in Maharashtra, with activists of the NCP, Congress, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), and different organisations staging protests for his ouster.

    “The observation made through the governor has intensified folks’s anger. This isn’t restricted to 1 unmarried political celebration, this can be a query of nationwide pleasure,” the Congress chief stated.

    He additional claimed that this was once now not the primary time that the governor made this kind of debatable observation, and stated it was once beside the point for an individual conserving a constitutional publish to make such remarks.

    Koshyari will have to be shifted out of Maharashtra and a brand new governor will have to be appointed for the state, Chavan stated, including that any disrespect to Maharashtra might not be tolerated.

    In the meantime, the Congress’ Aurangabad town and district devices staged an agitation at Kranti Chowk within the town hard that the governor be known as again through the President of India.

    “Koshyari will have to be known as again through the President (Droupadi Murmu). The governor has no thought whom to check Chhatrapati Shivaji with,” district Congress president and previous MLA Kalyan Kale stated.

    NANDED: Congress chief and previous leader minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday stated a brand new governor will have to be appointed for Maharashtra and Bhagat Singh Koshyari will have to be got rid of from his administrative center for his commentary on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

    Chavan was once chatting with newshounds after an agitation staged through Congress employees towards the governor in Nanded. All through an match in Aurangabad, Koshyari stated that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was once an icon of the “olden days.”

    The remark has induced a political hurricane in Maharashtra, with activists of the NCP, Congress, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), and different organisations staging protests for his ouster.

    “The observation made through the governor has intensified folks’s anger. This isn’t restricted to 1 unmarried political celebration, this can be a query of nationwide pleasure,” the Congress chief stated.

    He additional claimed that this was once now not the primary time that the governor made this kind of debatable observation, and stated it was once beside the point for an individual conserving a constitutional publish to make such remarks.

    Koshyari will have to be shifted out of Maharashtra and a brand new governor will have to be appointed for the state, Chavan stated, including that any disrespect to Maharashtra might not be tolerated.

    In the meantime, the Congress’ Aurangabad town and district devices staged an agitation at Kranti Chowk within the town hard that the governor be known as again through the President of India.

    “Koshyari will have to be known as again through the President (Droupadi Murmu). The governor has no thought whom to check Chhatrapati Shivaji with,” district Congress president and previous MLA Kalyan Kale stated.