Chandigarh, Feb. 19 -- With the Rajya Sabha poll schedule now being announced, political activity in Haryana and Himachal is expected to intensify as parties will start consultations to pick their nominees. As per the formula devised for the Rajya Sabha elections, 31 votes each are required for the two candidates to make it to the Upper House of Parliament from Haryana. Since Kiran Choudhry only got a truncated term of about a year and seven months as a Rajya Sabha member, she could well be in the reckoning as a BJP nominee. Former state ministers, Capt Abhimanyu and OP Dhankhar, former Congress MP, who switched sides to join the BJP, Kuldeep Bishnoi, and former Karnal MP Sanjay Bhatia are learnt to be in contention. From the Congress, former Union minister Anand Sharma, former state ministers Rao Dan Singh and Karan Dalal, former state Congress chief Udai Bhan and Raj Babbar, who lost from Gurgaon Lok Sabha seat in 2024, are in the contention. In HP, four Congress leaders, including former state Congress president Pratibha Singh, former minister Anand Sharma, Kaul Singh and party Himachal affairs in-charge Rajani Patil are in the race for the lone RS seat. htc...