Rajya Sabha bypolls: Union Minister George Kurian files nomination as BJP candidate from MP
The Hindu
George Kurian files nomination for BJP Rajya Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh after Jyotiraditya Scindia's election to Lok Sabha.
Union minister George Kurian on Wednesday (August 21) filed his nomination papers as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the upcoming by-election to a Rajya Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh.
The BJP on Tuesday evening announced Mr. Kurian as its candidate for a Rajya Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh that became vacant following Jyotiraditya Scindia's election to the Lok Sabha.
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Mr. Kurian, who is Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Minority Affairs, arrived in Bhopal on Wednesday morning, where state BJP chief V.D. Sharma welcomed him. After that, he met Chief Minister Mohan Yadav at the latter's official residence in the state capital.
He later filed his nomination papers at the state assembly complex in the presence of CM Yadav, Deputy Chief Ministers Rajendra Shukla and Jagdish Devda and state BJP chief Sharma, party spokesman Ashish Agrawal said.
Mr. Scindia, Union Minister of Communications, vacated his Rajya Sabha seat after being elected from Guna constituency in the general elections earlier this year.
Elections to 12 vacant Rajya Sabha seats in nine states will be held on September 3.
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