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NEW DELHI: The former Bharatiya Janata Party president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, is one of the two candidates the party has finalised for the elections to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka. Among other prominent candidates to get the nod from the BJP Parliamentary Board, which met here on Friday evening, are party spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Bihar), who had given a good fight to Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad in Chapra in the 2009 Lok Sabha election, and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (Uttar Pradesh), who lost in 2009 to Jayaprada of the Samajwadi Party in Rampur. Piyush Goyal, treasurer of the party, has been given the ticket from Maharashtra. His father Ved Prakash Goyal had worked as party treasurer for decades. From Chhattisgarh the party has selected senior State leader Nand Kumar Sai, while the second ticket from Karnataka has gone to Ayanur Manjunath. Earlier reports indicated that Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was keen to give the second seat from his State to the former Minister in his Cabinet, Shobha Karandlaje, who was forced to quit in November 2009 after the powerful Reddy brothers had demanded her resignation. The party has yet to decide its nominees from Madhya Pradesh, where Anil Dave is expected to get the ticket. In Rajasthan the fate of Najma Heptullah hangs in the balance. The Parliamentary Board also finalised candidates for legislative council elections in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The four candidates from Karnataka are C.H. Vijaya Shankar, Narayan Sa Bhandage, V. Somanna and Ashwathnarayan. The single name from Uttar Pradesh is Hridya Narayan Dixit. The two from Bihar are Harendra Pratap and Kiran Ghai, while from Maharashtra the two names declared are Shobha Tai Phadnis and Dhananjai Munde.
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