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BJP’s Rajya Sabha list is now out. Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi’s name is missing meaning he has no other alternative but to submit his resignation after his current term comes to an end.

Former union minister Prakash Javadekar has also been dropped. ICCR chairman Vinay Sahastrabuddhe who is a sitting member of Rajya Sabha, former union minister Shiv Pratap Shukla, O P Mathur, Dushyant Gautam are other senior BJP leaders whose names are missing from the final list of candidates.

As already announced earlier union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal have been named for Rajya Sabha by the BJP.

RS elections are scheduled to be held on June 10. Polling will be held for 57 seats spread across 15 states.

Nirmala Sitharaman is the BJP candidate from Karnataka and Piyush Goyal is up for re-election from Maharashtra.

Six candidates have been named from Uttar Pradesh, where 11 seats are vacant – Laxmikant Bajpai, Radha Mohan Agarwal, Surendra Nagar, Baburam Nishad, Darshana Singh, and Sangeeta Yadav.

Radha Mohan Agrawal, who gave up his Gorakhpur seat for UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to contest in the February-March state election, has been named for Rajya Sabha.

The other candidates from UP are Baburam Nishad Darshana Singh and Sangeeta Yadav.

SC Dubey, a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar, has been nominated again. Shambhu Sharon Patel, an OBC (Other Backward Class) leader, is the other candidate from Bihar.