By IANS,
Raipur : Nand Kumar Sai, a senior tribal leader of Chhattisgarh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls June 17.
The mineral-rich state has two vacancies in the Rajya Sabha with Sai and Congress’ Mohsina Kidwai completing their tenures.
Both parties will share one seat each as the BJP has 48 legislators in the 90-member assembly while the Congress has 39. One assembly seat is vacant and the remaining two seats are held by the Bahujan Samaj Party.
However, uncertainty reigns in the Congress camp with several leaders, including nine-time Congress MP V.C. Shukla and his arch rival and the state’s first chief minister Ajit Jogi, lobbying hard for the Rajya Sabha berth.