(LiveMint)
Union ministers Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dharmendra Pradhan and Thawar Chand Gehlot were among the prominent candidates who filed their nomination papers for the 23 March Rajya Sabha polls in various states. Finance minister Jaitley, a sitting member of the upper house from Gujarat, was among the 11 BJP nominees who filed their papers from Uttar Pradesh.
Union ministers Parshottam Rupala and Mansukh Mandavya of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) filed their nominations from Gujarat. Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, joined the fray once again from his home state Bihar, while Pradhan, minister for petroleum and natural gas, filed his papers from Madhya Pradesh. Pradhan is a sitting Rajya Sabha member from Bihar.
Social justice and empowerment minister Thawar Chand Gehlot threw his hat into the ring from Madhya Pradesh.Senior lawyer and Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi filed his nomination from West Bengal with the support of the state’s ruling TMC.
