BJP nominates 12 candidates for RS elections
The BJP on Sunday nominated 12 candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on June 11. Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and Power Minister Piyush Goyal will be the party's candidates from Rajasthan and Maharashtra, respectively. Further, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been nominated from Karnataka and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi from Jharkhand.