Rajya Sabha Polls: RJD Picks Misa Bharti And Dr Faiyaz Ahmad As Party's Candidates

Former MLA Faiyaz Ahmad to be the party's candidate for Rajya Sabha

Lalu Prasad's eldest daughter Misa Bharti

New Delhi: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad's eldest daughter and sitting Rajya Sabha member Misa Bharti and Former MLA Faiyaz Ahmad to be the party's candidates for Rajya Sabha, as reported by news agency ANI. Both will file their nominations on Friday at 11:30. Before this, both of them took the nomination form for the Rajya Sabha elections from the assembly on Thursday and also deposited the security deposit.

Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Dr. Misa Bharti and Dr. Faiyaz Ahmad to be the party's candidates for Rajya Sabha.

— ANI (@ANI) May 26, 2022

Faiyaz Ahmad is a former MLA of Bisfi, Madhubani. He entered politics in the year 2005. In the 2020 Vidhan Sabha elections, Faiyaz was up against Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Pushpam Priya Choudhary of The Plurals Party (TPP). Faiyaz was defeated in that election. Prior to this, he had won two consecutive terms in the 2010 and 2015 assembly elections. 

Meanwhile, the Opposition AIADMK has announced two of its seniors as the party's candidates for the biennial polls to Rajya Sabha.

Former state Law Minister C Ve Shanmugam, who is the party's Villupuram district secretary, and R Dharmar, former district secretary of Ramanathapuram and Mudukalathur panchayat association director, have been named as the authority applicants by AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam and co-facilitator K Palaniswamy on Wednesday night.

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary will be the joint Rajya Sabha candidate of SP and RLD. There was a discussion that Dimple Yadav would be sent to Rajya Sabha. Jayant Chaudhary had expressed displeasure on this. Due to this SP avenged its decision and it was decided to send Jayant Chaudhary to Rajya Sabha in place of Dimple Yadav.

"Jayant Chaudhary will be joint candidate of the SP and RLD," the Samajwadi Party said in a tweet from its official Twitter handle.

श्री जयंत चौधरी जी समाजवादी पार्टी एवं राष्ट्रीय लोकदल से राज्य सभा के संयुक्त प्रत्याशी होंगे।

— Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) May 26, 2022

The process of nomination for 11 Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh started on Tuesday. Voting for this election will be held on 10th June. The SP has 111 members in the 403-member state assembly and can easily send three candidates to the Rajya Sabha. Of which Jayant Chaudhary is one. On the other hand, Samajwadi Party has on Wednesday nominated former Union Minister Kapil Sibal as an independent candidate for Rajya Sabha. 

Speaking to the media, Sibal said that "it is important to have an independent voice."

"While staying in Opposition, we want to create an alliance so that we can oppose the Modi government."

Addressing the media after filing the nomination, Sibal said: "I have always wanted to be an independent voice in this country and I am glad that Akhilesh ji understands that. I think that we are all constrained by the fact that we are members of political parties and that is why we have to abide by the discipline of those parties. I think it is important to be an independent voice. When an independent voice is raised, people will understand that it is not associated with any party."