Nirmala for RS from AP
New Delhi: Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha candidate from Andhra Pradesh. The BJP on Thursday finalized to nominate Nirmala to the Upper House from Andhra Pradesh where the seat has fallen vacant after the demise of N Janardhana Reddy on May 9 this year. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had already promised to support Sitharaman.
"The Central Election Committee has decided to nominate Nirmala Sitharaman for the bye-election to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) of Andhra Pradesh," BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar said in New Delhi.
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce and Industry and MoS Finance and Corporate Affairs, Sitharaman had missed getting a Rajya Sabha berth from the party in the past.
After being inducted in the Union Council of Ministers, she has to be a member of either of the two Houses of Parliament within a period of six months.
News Posted: 19 June, 2014
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