Gujarat : 10 nominations filed for 4 Rajya Sabha seats

Gandhinagar : About 10 nominations were filed for four seats of Rajya Sabha in Gujarat on Thursday, according to the Election Commission (EC) officials.

The BJP nominated JP Nadda, Govind Dholakia, Mayank Nayak and Jaswantsinh Parmar. All the four BJP nominees from Gujarat, including party president J P Nadda, on Thursday filed their nomination papers at the state assembly building.

“A total of 10 nomination applications were submitted to the EC today. All the four BJP members filed two copies each for their nominations and one dummy application was filed for JP Nadda. Besides that, there was one nomination application filed by an independent,” Rita Mehta, the Returning Officer (RO) for the Rajya Sabha polls told the FPJ.

The independent nominee is an individual called Paresh Kumar Mulani from Ahmedabad. Does this independent application necessitate the holding of elections?

“No there is no such need to carry out the election process, as the independent nominees application papers doesn’t contain a single support from any of the elected legislators in the state assembly. According to the norms of the election commission, the nominee application should have the support of atleast ten legislators,” said Mehta.

The scrutiny of the nomination applications will be carried out on Friday at 1:30 pm. Mulani’s application will be automatically rejected on scrutiny.

At present, of these four Rajya Sabha seats, which will fall vacant soon, two are held by the BJP while two others by the Congress. In 2018, Congress had sent two of the four candidates Amee Yagnik and Naran Rathwa to the Rajya Sabha. Union ministers Parshottam Rupala and Mansukh Mandaviya had won the 2018 Rajya Sabha elections from the state.