Hectic lobbying has been started in both ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Opposition Congress for the election of three Rajya Sabha seats which has been scheduled on February 7.
BJP State president Narendra Singh Tomar while talking to media persons here on Tuesday said that the meeting of the State election committee would take place on January 24 to discuss the name of party candidates for the Rajya Sabha.
It is this committee that would decide that who should be send to the Rajya Sabha and who should be fielded to contest the lok Sabha election, he added.
On being asked that whether the outgoing upper house members would be repeated or new faces would be given chance to contest, the BJP State president replied that any decision regarding this would be taken in the meeting which would be especially attended by the general secretary in-charge of the State Ananth Kumar.
Sources from the BJP informed that about half a dozen names are doing rounds for the
two seats.
The names of senior party leaders including BJP national vice president Prabhat Jha, former State chief minister and national vice president Uma Bharti, Raghunandan Sharma, Satyanarayan Jatiya, Kailash Joshi, Ravinandan Singh and Chowdhry Rakesh Singh are
also expected.
Jha’s term is coming to end on March 28 while Bharti is a MlA in Uttar Pradesh assembly. While, sources from the Congress informed that the party could send its newly appointed State president Arun Yadav to the upper house. This could be done in view of ensuing general elections so that the State president could freely campaign in the State, sources added.
Yadav is presently a MP in lok Sabha from Khandwa area. Party is considering someone else for the fielding for this seat.