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Bihar Rajya Sabha biennial elections candidates LIVE voting % result 2016,JDU names candidates for Rajya Sabha poll,Sharad Yadav, RCP Singh, Bihar RS polls candidates, Bihar biennial elections 2016, RS polls 2016
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Five Rajya Sabha seats and seven Legislative Council seats were up for grabs in Bihar.
JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, noted Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani and RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti were among five candidates declared elected unopposed for Rajya Sabha.
Other two candidates who triumphed without a contest for the Upper House included JD(U) nominee Ramchandra Prasad Singh and BJP nominee Gopal Narayan Singh.
Jethmalani, a former BJP MP and law minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, was elected to Rajya Sabha from RJD. He is presently pleading RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s case in the multi-crore fodder scam in Ranchi.
With this, the tally of parties for the 16 Upper House seats from Bihar will be JD(U) 9, BJP 5 and RJD 2.
Besides, all seven candidates — including five from the Grand Secular Alliance while two BJP nominees — were elected unopposed for Legislative Council polls.
Bihar's ruling JD(U) today announced its leader Sharad Yadav and party General Secretary RCP Singh as its candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls.
Mr Yadav was formerly the JD (U) president, from whom Nitish Kumar took charge in April, and RCP Singh is considered very close to Mr Kumar.
Rajya Sabha Biennial Election...All you need to Know
| Bihar Candidates for Rajya Sabha polls 2016 | |
| Candidate | Party |
| Sharad Yadav | JD(U) |
| RCP Singh | JD(U) |
| Bihar Legislative Council polls Candidates | |
| Candidate | Party |
| Gulam Rasool Baliyavi | JD(U) |
| C P Sinha | JD(U) |
"Party president and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today approved the names of senior leader Sharad Yadav and national General Secretary RCP Singh for Rajya Sabha (polls) while Gulam Rasool Baliyavi and C P Sinha would be party's candidate for Legislative Council polls," party leader Bashishtha Narayan Singh told reporters in Patna.
Terms of five JD(U) Rajya Sabha MPs from Bihar - KC Tyagi, Pavan Kumar Varma, Gulam Rasool, Ramchandra Prasad Singh, and Sharad Yadav - end in July.
A gazette notification was issued on May 24 to elect five Rajya Sabha from Bihar and seven Legislative Council members.
May 31 is the last date for filing nominations for these seats, while scrutiny will take place on June 1. The last date for withdrawal of candidature is June 3.
The polling, if necessary, will be held for five Rajya Sabha seats on June 11 from 9am to 4pm and counting of votes will be done at 5 pm the same day. Council polls, if necessary, will be held on June 10.
Based on party's strength in the Bihar Assembly, JD(U) will get two seats each in Rajya Sabha and Council whereas RJD will get two RS seats and BJP one Rajya Sabha and one Council seats.