BJP announces nine nominees for biennial Rajya Sabha polls; party president Nabin nominated from Bihar

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) nominated its nationalist president, Nitin Nabin, for Rajya Sabha polls from Bihar. Mr. Nabin’s information was announced on with 8 different names.

The Election Commission will clasp biennial elections to 37 Rajya Sabha seats crossed 10 States connected March 16.

The ruling BJP is acceptable to summation seats successful the Upper House pursuing the elections, arsenic it has governments oregon is successful confederation successful six of the 10 States.

The States wherever the seats are falling vacant successful April are Maharashtra (seven), Tamil Nadu (six), West Bengal (five), Bihar (five), Odisha (four), Assam (three), Telangana (two), Chhattisgarh (two), Haryana (two), and Himachal Pradesh (one).

BJP’s database connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) includes the pursuing names:

1. Nitin Nabin (Bihar)
2. Shivesh Kumar (Bihar)
3. Terash Gowalla (Assam)
4. Jogen Mohan (Assam)
5. Laxmi Verma (Chhattisgarh)
6. Sanjay Bhatia (Haryana)
7. Manmohan Samal (Odisha)
8. Sujeet Kumar (Odisha)
9. Rahul Sinha (West Bengal)