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Bharatiya Janata Party  candidates Tarun Chugh and Rajneesh Agrawal on Saturday filed their nominations for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh.

 

The two candidates submitted their nominations at the state assembly complex here in the afternoon in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and senior party leaders.Voting for the three Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh is scheduled to take place on June 18, and the last date for filing of nominations is June 9.

 

The BJP has fielded Chugh and Agrawal for the biennial polls, while the Congress has nominated former MP Meenakshi Natarajan. Chugh is BJP national general secretary, while Agrawal is party’s MP state secretary.Before the submission of the nominations, the BJP held a meeting of its MLAs at the party’s state headquarters in Bhopal.

 

CM Yadav, BJP state president Hemant Khandelwal and the two Rajya Sabha candidates attended the meeting, during which party leaders discussed pollrelated preparations and organisational coordination. After the meeting, Yadav, Khandelwal and the candidates, among others, offered prayers at the Shiva and Hanuman temples located inside the BJP office premises. The leaders later left for the assembly in a convoy of more than 15 vehicles to file the nomination papers.

 

The BJP included the names of party national general secretary Tarun Chugh from Madhya Pradesh and Satish Poonia from Rajasthan.As per the list released by the party, Rajubhai Shukla, Mukeshbhai Rathwa, Mansingh Parmar and Jitendra Meghjibhai Kanzariya will contest the Rajya Sabha polls from Gujarat as BJP candidates.

 

Rajneesh Agrawal has been fielded from Madhya Pradesh, while Alka Gurjar has been nominated from Rajasthan. The BJP has fielded A Sharda Devi from Manipur and Tai Tagak from Arunachal Pradesh.The BJP’s central election committee has also named Debashish Samantaray as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha bypoll from Odisha. Samantaray had recently joined the BJP after quitting the BJD. He was earlier a Rajya Sabha MP from Odisha before resigning from the Upper House.