Jaya Bachchan to be Samajwadi Party's Rajya Sabha Candidate From Uttar Pradesh
Earlier there were reports that Jaya Bachchan could be Mamata Banerjee's Rajya Sabha nominee from West Bengal.
Samajwadi Party has declared actor Jaya Bachchan as their Rajya Sabha candidate from Uttar Pradesh. Her third term in the Upper House will come to an end on April 3. According to a report on ANI, Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh said, "Jaya Bachcan was consistently loyal to the Samajwadi Party, its system and hierarchy. She has proved to be better a politician than Naresh Agrawal" On February 23, Election Commission of India released the schedule for the biennial polls to be held for 58 Rajya Sabha seats.
The 58 Rajya Sabha seats to be contested correspond to a total of 16 states. The voting will be held on March 23 at the respective legislative assemblies. Earlier there were speculative reports that Jaya Bachchan could be Mamata Banerjee's Rajya Sabha nominee from West Bengal.
The MPs from UP whose term will end on April 2 are: Naresh Agarwal, Jaya Bachchan, Kiranmay Nanda, Chaudhary Munawar Saleem, Alok Tiwari and Darshan Singh Yadav (all SP), Munquad Ali (BSP), Pramod Tiwari (Congress) and Vinay Katiyar (BJP).
Jaya Bachchan was first elected in 2004 as a Samajwadi Party member of parliament, representing Rajya Sabha till March 2006. She got a second term from June 2006 until July 2010. She was re-elected in 2012 for the third term.
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