“Jayant Chaudhary will be joint candidate of the SP and RLD,” the Samajwadi Party said in a tweet from its official Twitter handle.
श्री जयंत चौधरी जी समाजवादी पार्टी एवं राष्ट्रीय लोकदल से राज्य सभा के संयुक्त प्रत्याशी होंगे।
— Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) 1653541432000
Chaudhary was seen as an obvious choice from the SP’s three-seat quota after the young Jat leader rejected all attempts by the BJP to woo him during the assembly elections.
Politcal observers had said that if Dimple had been chosen, it would have given ammunition to the ruling BJP to take on the principal opposition party on the issue of ‘pariwarvaad’ (dynasty politics).
Kapil Sibal and Javed Ali
For its other two seats, the SP has nominated its senior leader Javed Ali Khan and has decided to support the candidacy of former Congress leader Kapil Sibal, who has filed his papers as an independent candidate.
Reports are that Kapil Sibal and Javed Ali made the cut as the SP chief wanted to keep party veteran Azam Khan in good humour. Azam was in jail since February 2020 and SP leadership had used its ‘friendship’ with Sibal to convince him to take up Azam’s case in the Supreme Court.
Sibal pursued Azam’s case and he was released on bail last week.
Javed Ali’s candidature is believed to be in line with demand from within the party to send a Muslim to Rajya Sabha only to reassure the community that the party stands by it.
Race to Rajya Sabha
With 273 MLAs in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, the ruling BJP-led NDA will easily be able to get eight members elected to the Upper House of Parliament, while the SP and its allies (RLD and SBSP), with a strength of 125 legislators, will be able to ensure the victory of three candidates.
Uttar Pradesh sends 31 members to the Rajya Sabha.
Among the 11 retiring MPs from the state, five are from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), three from the SP, two from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and one from the Congress.
Among those whose tenures are ending include Sibal, Satish Chandra Mishra of the BSP and Reoti Raman Singh of the SP.
With 403 elected members in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, a candidate will require at least 34 votes for victory.
The outcome of the state Assembly election held in February-March has changed the equation this time.
The Congress has two MLAs in the Assembly, while Mayawati’s BSP has one legislator.
Two senior BSP leaders — Mishra and Ashok Siddharth — will retire in July, after which the party will have only one member, Ramji Gautam, in the Upper House of Parliament.
The five retiring Rajya Sabha MPs of the BJP are Zafar Islam, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Sanjay Seth, Surendra Nagar and Jai Prakash Nishad.
The SP leaders completing their terms include former Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council chairman Sukhram Singh Yadav, whose son Mohit has joined the BJP.
Besides Yadav, the tenure of Reoti Raman Singh and Vishambhar Prasad Nishad will also end in July.
The Election Commission had announced May 24 as the date of notification for the Rajya Sabha polls, while voting will be held on June 10 and the results will be declared the same day.
(With inputs from PTI)
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