Rajya Sabha bypolls: BJP fileds Ravneet Singh Bittu, George Kurian. See full list | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday released a list of nine names for by-elections to the Rajya Sabha that includes the likes of Union ministers Ravneet Singh Bittu from Rajasthan and George Kurian from Madhya Pradesh.
The BJP also named senior party leader Kiran Choudhry as its nominee from Haryana, two months after she switched sides from the Congress. The bypoll for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Haryana was necessitated after Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda was elected to the Lok Sabha from Rohtak.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced that elections for 12 vacant Rajya Sabha seats across nine states will be held on September 3.These vacancies include seats previously occupied by leaders who have since transitioned to the Lok Sabha. Among the 10 Rajya Sabha seats now vacant are those of Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Sarbananda Sonowal, and Jyotiraditya Scindia, all of whom were elected to the Lok Sabha.
Apart from Goyal, Sonowal, and Scindia, other Rajya Sabha members who won parliamentary elections and moved to the Lok Sabha include Kamakhya Prasad Tasa (BJP), Misha Bharti (RJD), Vivek Thakur (BJP), Deepender Singh Hooda (Congress), Udayanraje Bhosle (BJP), K C Venugopal (Congress), and Biplab Kumar Deb (BJP).