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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has intensified its strategic preparations for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections. In this series, the party has officially announced the names of 8 new candidates for Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. After this new list came out, it has become clear that the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri This time the party has not fielded again the eight sitting MPs, whose tenure is about to complete. In this new list of BJP, an excellent mix of caste equations, regional balance and organizational experience is being seen, which is being considered very important from the upcoming political point of view.
In this new list released by the Bharatiya Janata Party for Uttar Pradesh, the party has given opportunity to many grassroots and senior leaders. The 8 new faces who have been made candidates for Rajya Sabha include the following names:
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Dharampal Singh (Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government and belongs to Lodhi community)
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Radhakant Ojha (senior party leader)
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Prakash Pal (Senior BJP leader and president of Uttar Pradesh OBC Morcha, from Pal community)
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Vidyasagar Sonkar (Senior BJP leader from Jaunpur and prominent face of Dalit community)
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Priyanka Singh Rawat (Former Lok Sabha MP from Barabanki)
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Ram Pratap Singh Chauhan (Senior organizational leader of the party and General Secretary of UP BJP)
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Gopi Krishna Pandey (Active leaders associated with the organization)
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Shruti Gangwar (Young and active eye)
In this equation released by the party, place has been specifically given to 3 OBC candidates, 2 Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates and 3 general category candidates, in which full care has also been taken of women’s representation by including two women leaders.
With this new announcement of BJP, the tenure of the current eight Rajya Sabha MPs whose tenure is ending, includes many big and central level names. Among these, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Arun Singh, Seema Dwivedi, BL Verma, Neeraj Shekhar, Brijlal and Geeta Shakya The names are prominent. Apart from this, the name of Dinesh Sharma, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, was also in the list of MPs who have stepped down, as he is currently holding the responsibility of Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Political analysts believe that this step of BJP, just before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections to be held in the year 2027, is part of a very well thought out strategy. By giving opportunity to new faces, the party has given a message to the workers working within the organization that loyalty and hard work is fully respected. In the coming days, it is considered almost certain that all these candidates will reach the Upper House of the Parliament either unopposed or elected through the electoral process.