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In what is seen as ally bonding, Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary will be the joint candidate of the Samajwadi Party and RLD for the Rajya Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh, the SP announced. Both the SP- RLD fought the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls together.
Earlier, Former senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal had on Wednesday filed his nomination as an SP-backed Independent candidate for the Rajya Sabha polls.
Javed Ali Khan had filed his nomination for the election as an SP candidate. ‘Jayant Chaudhary will be joint candidate of the SP and RLD,’ the Samajwadi Party said in a tweet from its official Twitter handle.
With 273 MLAs in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance will easily be able to get eight members elected to the Upper House of Parliament, while the SP and its allies (RLD and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party), with a strength of 125 legislators, will be able to ensure the victory of three candidates.
Uttar Pradesh sends 31 members to the Rajya Sabha.
Among the 11 retiring MPs from the state, five are from the BJP, three from the SP, two from the Bahujan Samaj Party and one from the Congress.
Among those whose tenures are ending include Sibal, Satish Chandra Mishra of the BSP and Reoti Raman Singh of the SP.
