A day after being inducted into the Union cabinet as defence minister, Manohar Parrikar filed his nomination papers for Rajya Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh. Parrikar was accompanied by Union ministers Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Kalraj Mishra, MP Jagdambika Pal and other senior BJP leaders. The biennial election for 10 Rajya Sabha seats from UP is slated for November 20.
Rajya Sabha members whose term will be expiring on November 25 are Akhilesh Das, Avtar Singh Karimpuri, Brijlal Khabari, Brijesh Pathak, Raja Ram and Veer Singh (all BSP), Amar Singh and Ram Gopal Yadav (both SP), Kusum Rai (BJP) and Mohammad Adeeb (Congress). The ruling Samajwadi Party can win six seats and the BSP two based on their strength in the UP Assembly. BJP and Congress can get one each with support of other parties.
SP has fielded Ram Gopal Yadav, state cabinet minister Azam Khan's wife Tazeen Fatima, Neeraj Shekhar, who is son of former prime minister Chandrashekhar, Ravi Prakash Verma, Javed Ali Khan and Chandrapal Singh Yadav, Congress has nominated PL Punia. BSP has fielded Raja Ram and Veer Singh.
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