A day after the Maharashtra Assembly passed the 10% quota for Marathas, Bharatiya Janata Party Chief JP Nadda to start his two-day yatra of Mumbai.
Nadda will be addressing the BJP workers at a conference in Andheri, Maharashtra. He is likely to have meetings with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.
BJP President JP Nadda and other three candidates of the party were declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat on Tuesday.
There were approximately four vacant Rajya Sabha seats in the state and as many candidates, all of the ruling BJP had filed their nomination papers.
According to an official, ‘Returning Officer Reeta Mehta declared all the four BJP candidates, including JP Nadda, elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament and no other candidates had filed nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat on four vacant seats’.
However, Tuesday was the last date for withdrawal of nomination forms.
Apart from JP Nadda, the three other candidates elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha were diamond baron Govindbhai Dholakia, BJP leaders Jasvantsinh Parmar and Mayank Nayak.
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