The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday nominated Union Ministers Sarbananda Sonowal and L Murugan for the Rajya Sabha bye-elections for the Assam and Madhya Pradesh seats.
The Assam seat had been vacated after Assembly speaker Biswajit Daimary resigned as a member in November 2020.
The Madhya Pradesh seat fell vacant after Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot was appointed the governor of Karnataka in July.
In July, Sonowal was appointed as the Union minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways and as the minister for Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has also served as the chief minister of Assam between 2016 and 2021.
Murugan is currently serving as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He was the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party…