BJP vice president Prabhat Jha and senior party leader Satyanarayan Jatia would be party’s candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections. Their names were endorsed in a meeting of the Central BJP election committee held in New Delhi on Friday night.
After the meeting of the committee in New Delhi, national BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar declared that BJP nominees for Rajya Sabha elections for two vacancies would be Prabhat Jha and Satyanarayan Jatia.
Earlier, in the day, the State election committee of the party met here and finalised the names of these two leaders. The names decided by the committee were sent to the Central election committee in New Delhi.
However, after the meeting, State BJP general secretary Nand Kumar Singh Chouhan told mediapersons that a panel of five names has been sent to the Central committee for final decision. He also informed that the committee also discussed preliminary regarding lok Sabha elections. A couple of names including Sushma Swaraj from Vidisha were discussed in the meeting.
There were two vacancies in the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh that are falling vacant. These two MPs were Raghunandan Sharma and Prabhat Jha. Another seat of Maya Singh got vacated after she resigned from the Upper House after being elected to the State Assembly.
Going by the equation of party legislators in the State Assembly, two seats would easily come in favour of the BJP, while the third would go to the Congress.