Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar will file a nomination for the Rajya Sabha seat from Gandhinagar today

The BJP has not officially announced the names of candidates for the three Rajya Sabha seats for which elections are to be held on July 24. However, Jaishankar's nomination was certain.
Ahmedabad: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will file his nomination papers for the elections to be held for the Rajya Sabha seat of Gujarat today. He reached Ahmedabad on Sunday. A BJP official gave this information. BJP's Gujarat unit general secretary Pradeep Singh Vaghela said Jaishankar, whose term ends on August 18 along with two other Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat, will be filing their nomination papers today.
Minister Raghavji Patel, Ahmedabad Mayor Kirit Parmar and other party officials of BJP welcomed Jaishankar at Ahmedabad airport. The BJP has not officially announced the names of candidates for the three Rajya Sabha seats for which elections are to be held on July 24. However, Jaishankar's nomination was certain.

The Congress on Friday said it will not field candidates in the elections to the three Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat as it does not have enough MLAs in the 182-member assembly. The BJP won a record 156 seats in the assembly elections held late last year in Gujarat.

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