TMC to support Abhishek Singhvi from Bengal, says Mamata
BY MPOST BUREAU10 March 2018 12:10 AM IST
MPOST BUREAU10 March 2018 12:44 PM IST
Kolkata/New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday said her party would support Abhishek Manu Singhvi of the Congress in the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from the state.
Announcing the names of four TMC candidates for the polls at the party's extended core committee meeting here, she said, "Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Kapil Sibal (also of the Congress) have fought many court cases for us. There was a request to me (for supporting Singhvi). We will support Singhvi in the fifth RS seat from Bengal."
The four Trinamool candidates for the elections to the Upper House are –Nadimul Haque, who was renominated, Subhasish Chakraborty, Abir Biswas and Dr Santunu Sen.
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday filed his nomination papers here for the biennial Rajya Sabha elections from Maharashtra.
Javadekar filed the nomination at the Vidhan Bhavan here.
The elections for six seats from Maharashtra will be held on March 23.
With 122 MLAs in its kitty, the BJP is the largest party in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly.
As 42 votes are needed for a winning candidate, the BJP seems to be in a position to send three members to the Upper House, if it could muster the support of few more MLAs.
Javadekar is the only BJP leader whose name has been announced so far by the BJP's Central Election Committee for Maharashtra.
Bollywood actor and Samajwadi Party leader Jaya Bachchan filed her nomination papers as SP candidate for the Rajya Sabha biennial elections from Uttar Pradesh.
Accompanied by party leaders Dimple Yadav, wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Rajendra Chowdhury and Kironmay Nanda, besides businessman Subrata Roy Sahara, Jaya Bachchan, who turns 70 next month, filed her nomination at the Central Hall of the state Assembly. BJD candidates Prashanta Nanda, Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and Achyuta Samanta on Friday filed their nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections from Odisha here.
The three nominees filed their papers before the returning officer in the presence of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha and other senior party leaders.
However, taking into consideration the absolute majority of the BJD in the state Assembly with 118 members in the 147-member house, the election would be a formality even if the opposition fields any candidate.
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