Lucknow: Samajwadi Party on Thursday declared Rashtriya Lok Dal’s (RLD) Jayant Chaudhary as their joint candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections.
Uttar Pradesh: RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary will be the joint candidate of the Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal for the Rajya Sabha elections#JayantChaudhary
— Dynamite News (@DynamiteNews_) May 26, 2022
The Samajwadi Party in a Twitter post announced that the party’s ally and RLD’s chief Jayant Chaudhary will be its candidate for one of the three upper house seats that the party has in Rajya Sabha.
श्री जयंत चौधरी जी समाजवादी पार्टी एवं राष्ट्रीय लोकदल से राज्य सभा के संयुक्त प्रत्याशी होंगे।
— Samajwadi Party (@samajwadiparty) May 26, 2022
Earlier on Wednesday, Kapil Sibal and Javed Ali filed their nominations for the Rajya Sabha polls. Sibal said that he had quit the Congress last week and is in the fray as an independent candidate with the support of Akhilesh Yadav's SP.
Elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats spread across 15 states will take place on June 10. The maximum number of seats is in Uttar Pradesh, with polls to be held for 11 vacancies.
