BJP Fields Ministers Ravneet Bittu, George Kurian For Rajya Sabha Bypolls

The BJP has announced its candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha bypolls on September 3, 2024, naming nine individuals to contest the elections. Among them are Union ministers Ravneet Singh Bittu, representing Rajasthan, and George Kurian, from Madhya Pradesh. The party has also nominated Mamata Mohanta, a former BJD leader from Odisha, and Kiran Choudhary, an ex-Congress leader from Haryana, both of whom recently joined the BJP.

The list of candidates includes Manan Kumar Mishra from Bihar, Dhairyashil Patil from Maharashtra, and Rajib Bhattacharjee from Tripura, who currently serves as the president of the BJP's Tripura unit. In Assam, the party has chosen Mission Ranjan Das and former Union minister Rameswar Teli to represent it.

भारतीय जनता पार्टी की केन्द्रीय चुनाव समिति ने विभिन्न राज्यों में होने वाले आगामी राज्यसभा के उप-चुनाव हेतु निम्नलिखित नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति प्रदान की है। pic.twitter.com/0TFtIv3t9c — BJP (@BJP4India) August 20, 2024