The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday nominated its former West Bengal unit president Rahul Sinha for one amongst the five Rajya Sabha seats from the thunder that will lunge to polls on March 16.
Five seats from West Bengal are scheduled for election to the Upper Apartment this month.
“Rahul Sinha is a favorite political personality who strengthened the occasion’s sinister in West Bengal and served as thunder president apart from to a national secretary,” the BJP said.
With 75 legislators within the 294-member thunder assembly, in comparison with 215 of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), the BJP has the numerical energy to build determined Sinha’s victory.
On February 27, the AITC taken aback many by nominating former thunder director frequent of police Rajeev Kumar, Supreme Courtroom lawyer Menaka Guruswamy, Cabinet minister Babul Supriyo and actor Koel Mallick for the finest four seats.
The phrases of TMC leaders Subrata Bakshi, Ritabrata Banerjee and Saket Gokhale, apart from to CPI(M) leader Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, are plan to cease on April 2. The term of TMC’s Mausam Noor changed into also due to the cease on the identical day, nonetheless she resigned from the Rajya Sabha after returning to the Congress on January 3.
And not using a MLAs in West Bengal since 2021, the Congress and the Left events are not in contention for the Rajya Sabha seats.
