Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today filed his nomination papers as the BJP candidate in the Rajya Sabha.While signing the papers,he was accompanied by Chief Minister Raghubar Das.
Among the biennial elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats in the country , two RS seats were vacant in Jharkhand where the polls are slated to be held on June 11 from 9 am to 4 pm.The counting and the declaration of results are slated to be done the same day from 5 pm.
The opposition JMM is expected to put up Basant Soren as its candidate.Soren is the son of JMM supremo Shibu Soren’s son and younger brother of ex CM Hemant Soren