Arun Jaitley to contest Rajya Sabha polls from UP: BJP

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Mar 07, 2018, 07.54 PM IST
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New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks during a press conference after ...
Jaitley is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will contest the Rajya Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh while Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will do so from Madhya Pradesh, the BJP's central election committee announced today.

Jaitley is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat and Pradhan is a member from Bihar.

The party today announced the names of seven Union ministers and one general secretary for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls in various states.

The others -- apart from Jaitley and Pradhan -- will contest from the same states they have been elected from.

Social Justice Minister Thawarchand Gehlot will contest from Madhya Pradesh, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Bihar and J P Nadda from Himachal Pradesh, the party said in a statement.

The other two Union ministers, Parshottam Rupala and Manusukh Mandaviya, will contest from Gujarat.

Bhupender Yadav, the party's general secretary, will again contest from Rajasthan.

The terms of all seven leaders ends on April 2 and all are set to be elected again.
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