With the Lok Sabha results out, the BJP on Monday named Kamakhya Prasad Tasa as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections in Assam.
Tasa, who has long been associated with the BJP and working for tea garden workers, was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014 from the Jorhat seat, but the party did not field him in this general election.
The party has not named the candidate for the second seat from the State, but it may support its Assam ally AGP for this.
There has been speculation that the BJP may back Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, its ally in Bihar, for one of the seats in Assam after it promised to send him to the Rajya Sabha at the earliest opportunity during seat sharing talks for the Lok Sabha polls.
Paswan did not contest the general elections this time.
The Congress held the seats, including one by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
With the BJP Government now at the helm and the party enjoying overwhelming majority in the State Assembly, its candidates are likely to win the two seats.
The BJP also named its candidates for the MLC election for one seat each in Bihar and Maharashtra. It has fielded Radha Mohan Sharma from Bihar and Pruthvi Raj Deshmukh from Maharashtra.
The election of party president Amit Shah, Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Smriti Irani, currently members of the Rajya Sabha to the Lok Sabha, would leave three more vacancies in the upper house for the BJP.
Shah, 54, was elected to the Upper House of Parliament in August 2017, making his parliamentary debut.
He won his first Lok Sabha election from the Gandhinagar constituency by a margin of over 5.57 lakh votes against his nearest rival Congress' C J Chavda.
Irani, 43, who had earlier also served as an HRD Minister and I&B Minister in the Modi Government, proved herself to be a giant-killer as she dethroned Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Amethi by a margin of 55,120 votes, while Prasad, 64, dislodged sitting MP and former BJP member Shatrughan Sinha who fought on a Congress ticket by a margin of over 2.84 lakh in Patna Sahib constituency.
The TV actor-turned-politician had twice fought the Lok Sabha election unsuccessfully in 2004, losing to Congress leader Kapil Sibal in Chandni Chowk constituency and in 2014 suffered defeat at the hands of Rahul Gandhi in Amethi.
