The BJP has nominated former RSS member and its senior leader Meghraj Jain as the party’s nominee for the Rajya Sabha bypoll in Madhya Pradesh.
The party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) which met on Tuesday night cleared Jain’s name. The last date for filing of nominations for the bypoll to the lone seat, is September 11 and election, if any, will be held on September 22. The resignation of Kaptan Singh Solanki who became Haryana Governor necessitated election for the Rajya Sabha seat.
71-year-old Jain was a former Rajya Sabha member from May, 2011 to April, 2012 and has been nominated by the party for the remaining part of Solanki’s membership. Solanki had resigned on July 27 this year and the seat was declared vacant.A former RSS member , Jain was president of the Gau Seva Commission in Madhya Pradesh as also head of Mela Development Authority in the state before the last Assembly elections.
Jain has been an RSS Pracharak and later organisation Secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad since 1969. He became the president of Janata Yuva Morcha in Madhya Pradesh in 1977 and zonal organisational secretary of BJP from 1992 to 1995 and BJP’s state general secretary from 1998 to 2000.