New Delhi, May 29
Three BJP members — BJP chief Amit Shah and Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Ravi Shankar Prasad — and DMK’s Kanimozhi ceased to be members of RS after their elections to the 17th LS.
In a circular issued today by Rajya Sabha secretariat, it said all four members “ceased to be members of Rajya Sabha from the date of their being chosen as members of Lok Sabha on May 23”.
As the first three members are from the ruling party, the BJP will have three vacancies to fill from Gujarat (2) and Bihar (1). As promised during the seat-sharing formula struck among the NDA alliance partners at the time of Lok Sabha elections, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan is likely to replace Prasad in the Rajya Sabha. Paswan, presently not a member of either House, has been nominated by his party to join the government.
Similarly, the two vacancies from Gujarat, after both Shah and Irani got elected to the Lok Sabha, may be used for accommodating those leaders who have lost the election but may be given berth in the Cabinet.
Shah has won the election from Gandhinagar in Gujarat and Irani from Amethi in UP. Prasad has won from Patna Sahib in Bihar and Kanimozhi from Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu. — TNS
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