Jayant Choudhary of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) has been nominated as joint candidate for Rajya Sabha for the alliance of Samajwadi Party and RLD.
This comes amid speculation that Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav was the party’s first choice for the Rajya Sabha.
Jayant Choudhary is in Delhi and is likely to file his nomination today.
The official Twitter handle of Samajwadi Party (SP) announced this in a post and wrote, “Shri Jayant Choudhary ji will be joint candidate of Rajya Sabha from Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal.”
Shri Jayant Chaudhary ji will be the joint candidate of Rajya Sabha from Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal.
— Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) 26 May 2022
On Wednesday, veteran Congress leader Kapil Sibal said that he resigned from the party on May 16 and filed a Rajya Sabha nomination as an independent with the support of the SP.
“I have filed nomination as an independent candidate. I thank Akhilesh ji for supporting me. “I resigned from the Congress on May 16 and am no longer the leader of the Congress,” he said, refusing to join the criticism of the party. Sibal had earlier called a non-Gandhi as the new president of the party.
I had a close association with Congress. It was for 30-31 years. This is no small thing. I joined Congress because of Rajiv ji (former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi). You must be thinking that how can one leave the Congress after 31 years. Something must happen, sometimes such decisions have to be taken.” He said that his ideology is still attached to the Congress. I am not far from Congress and its ideology. I am with the party’s sentiments.
With 273 MLAs in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, the ruling BJP-led NDA will be able to easily get eight members elected to the upper house of Parliament, while the SP and its allies (RLD and SBSP), with a strength of 125 MLAs, Will ensure victory of three candidates.
Uttar Pradesh sends 31 members to the Rajya Sabha. Of the 11 retired MPs from the state, five are from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), three from the SP, two from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and one from the Congress.
Apart from Sibal, whose term is ending include BSP’s Satish Chandra Mishra and SP’s Revathi Raman Singh. In the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly with 403 elected members, a candidate would need at least 34 votes to win.
read all breaking news , today’s fresh news And IPL 2022 Live Updates Here.