Kalpana Saini

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday named kalpana saini as its nominee for the Rajya Sabha (RS) seat from Uttarakhand. Voting for the RS seat, from which Congress leader Pradeep Tamta has retired, is due on June 10. Saini is set to be the second woman to represent the hill state in the upper house of the Parliament after Congress's Manorama Dobriyal Sharma, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2014.

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday named kalpana saini as its nominee for the Rajya Sabha (RS) seat from Uttarakhand. Voting for the RS seat, earlier held by Congress leader Pradeep Tamta , is due on June 10.

As per expectations, BJP’s kalpana saini has been elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha. On Friday, Uttarakhand assembly secretary Mukesh Singhal handed over the certificate to Saini in the presence of parliamentary affairs minister Prem Chand Aggarwal and other senior BJP leaders.

kalpana saini, the BJP nominee for the Rajya Sabha seat, filed her nomination papers in the Uttarakhand assembly on Tuesday. The chief of the state’s OBC panel, Saini is likely to be elected unopposed as Congress does not have the required numbers in the state assembly.

Dehradun: As per expectations, BJP’s kalpana saini has been elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha. On Friday, Uttarakhand assembly secretary Mukesh Singhal handed over the certificate to Saini in the presence of parliamentary affairs minister Prem Chand Aggarwal and other senior BJP leaders. Saini was, so far, serving as the chief of Uttarakhand’s OBC panel. The Roorkee-based leader won the RS seat without any opposition as Congress didn’t field any candidate against her. The grand-old party doesn’t have enough legislative assembly seats in Uttarakhand to be able to contest for the RS seat. Uttarakhand has three Rajya Sabha seats and with this win, the BJP has managed to hold all three of them. Further, BJP also holds all the five Lok Sabha seats from Uttarakhand. The saffron party won all LS seats in the 2014 and 2019 general elections.

Uttarakhand sends three members to the Upper House of the Parliament and five Lok Sabha members. In 2009, Congress won all five Lok Sabha seats, while in 2014 and 2019 Bharatiya Janata Party swept all the five LS seats of the Himalayan state.

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