The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday launched its record of 14 candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections that are scheduled to happen on February 27. The votes for the 56 seats unfold throughout 15 states can be counted the identical day.

RPN Singh, a former Congress chief who crossed over to the BJP in 2022, has been nominated from Uttar Pradesh. Others names from UP are: Sudhanshu Trivedi, Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, Sadhna Singh, Amarpal Maurya, Sangita Balwant and Navin Jain. The state has the best variety of vacancies of 10 seats.

Except for Sudhanshu Trivedi, not one of the 9 outgoing BJP MPs from Uttar Pradesh together with Anil Jain, Anil Agrawal and G V L Narasimha Rao has been renominated.

A superb steadiness of castes displays within the UP record with Kurmi, Brahmin, Nishad, Jain, Rajput, Maurya, Jat being represented.

None of the Union ministers, whose phrases are coming to an finish, was named within the record amid a powerful chance that lots of them will contest the Lok Sabha polls.

In Bihar, which has six seats, the BJP, which is once more in alliance with Nitish Kumar’s JDU, has named Dharmsheela Gupta and Bhim Singh. Notably, Sushil Kumar Modi’s title is lacking on this record. Mr Modi has congratulated the 2 Bihar leaders on being nominated.

In Chhattisgarh, the place the BJP handed Congress a shock defeat within the not too long ago held state polls, it has named Raja Devendra Pratap Singh. Mr Singh is from the erstwhile Gond royal household and replaces Saroj Pandey.

In Haryana the celebration will subject its former state chief Subhash Barala, a Jat; whereas in Karnataka, it’s Narayana Krishanasa Bhandage.

In Uttarakhand, the BJP will subject Mahendra Bhatt; whereas in Bengal, the celebration will subject Samik Bhattacharya.

Candidates from Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are but to be named by the BJP.

Union ministers Mansukh Mandaviya and Parshottam Rupala from Gujarat, Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and L Murugan, each of whom characterize Madhya Pradesh, and Union minister Narayan Rane from Maharashtra are amongst these retiring from the House as members.

Fifty eight Rajya Sabha members, together with eight Central Ministers, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP chief JP Nadda, will retire by the primary week of May.

Among these retiring are 28 MPs from the BJP, 11 from Congress, 4 from Trinamool Congress, 4 from Bharat Rashtra Samithi, two every from Biju Janata Dal, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Janata Dal (United), and one every from YSRCP, Shiv Sena, NCP, Telugu Desam Party, and Sikkim Democratic Front.