Sanjay Jha, the national general secretary of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), is expected to be nominated for the Rajya Sabha elections scheduled for February 27, according to a top party official.
The JD-U president and close ally of the chief minister is expected to file his nomination papers on Wednesday. However, an official announcement has not yet been made.
As a member of the Bihar legislative council since 2019, Jha served as minister of water resources from 2019 until the JD-U walked out of the general assembly on January 28, 2024.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the JD-U’s alliance partner, had already named Bhim Singh and Dharamsheela Gupta as its candidates.
The filing of nomination papers for half a dozen seats, which closes on February 15, are held by the state’s ruling NDA and the opposition Mahagathbandhan.
There are a number of MPs whose terms will be expiring, including Vashishth Narayan Singh and Aneel Hegde (JDU), Sushil Kumar Modi (BJP), Manoj Kumar Jha and Ashfaq Karim (RJD) and state Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh.
There are 131 members of the NDA and 112 members of the GA in total.
