A former Haryana minister and MLA from Tosham, Choudhary, 69, joined the BJP along with her daughter Shruti and their supporters in June.According to BJP’s list of nine candidates, Manan Kumar Mishra is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court and chairman of the Bar Council of India. He has been fielded form Bihar while Dhairyashil Patil from Maharashtra and Rajib Bhattacharjee from Tripura.As per the NDA’s seat-sharing formula for Bihar in the Lok Sabha polls, Kushwaha’s party was to get a seat in Parliament and another berth in the state legislative council.Kushwaha contested the Karakat seat, which he had won for the NDA in 2014, but finished third behind Raja Ram Kushwaha of CPI(ML), who won, and Pawan Singh who was the runner-up.Maharashtra is one of the four poll-bound states, which is scheduled to go to the polls this year. Battacharjee is the president of the BJP’s Tripura unit. The party’s central leadership, marinating social engineering in the selection of candidates has also fielded Ranjan Das and former Union minister Rameswar Teli as its candidates from Assam.This time, elections for 12 vacant Rajya Sabha seats will be held on September 3 after ten of these seats fell vacant as the sitting members, including Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Sarbananda Sonowal and Jyotiraditya Scindia, were elected to the Lok Sabha.
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