New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- BJP President JP Nadda, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and journalist Sagarika Ghosh are among those in the fray for the Rajya Sabha elections with the deadline for filing of nominations ending Thursday. Party turncoats Ashok Chavan, Milind Deora and Praful Patel too are in fray to enter the Upper House as per their new political alignments in Maharashtra.
The biennial elections are scheduled on February 27 in 56 seats - 10 in Uttar Pradesh, six each in Maharashtra and Bihar, five each in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, four each in Gujarat and Karnataka, three each in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan and Odisha, and one each in Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Himach...