<p>New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday named 14 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls including former Union minister R P N Singh and outgoing MP Sudhanshu Trivedi from Uttar Pradesh and its Uttarakhand unit president Mahendra Bhatt from the hill state.</p><p>None of the Union ministers, whose terms are coming to an end, were named in the list amid a strong possibility that many of them will contest the Lok Sabha polls.</p><p>However, the party is yet to name many candidates.</p>.Journalist Sagarika Ghose joins TMC, to contest Rajya Sabha election.<p>Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who represents Karnataka in Rajya Sabha, and BJP chief spokesperson and media head Anil Baluni, the outgoing MP from Uttarakhand, have not been nominated.</p><p>Both may be fielded by the party in the Lok Sabha polls, sources said.</p><p>Senior Bihar leader Sushil Kumar Modi's fate hangs in a balance as his name did not figure among the candidates named by the party.</p><p>Bihar has six vacancies and both the ruling NDA and the opposition are likely to win three seats each, going by their current strengths. The JD(U), a BJP ally, is likely to name its candidate for one seat.</p><p>R P N Singh, who comes from the politically important Krumi caste, was in the Congress before joining the BJP.</p><p>Former Haryana BJP president Subhash Barala will be the party's candidate from the state.</p><p>Elections for 56 Rajya Sabha seats spread across 15 states are scheduled to be held on February 27, and the last date for filing nominations is February 15.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday named 14 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls including former Union minister R P N Singh and outgoing MP Sudhanshu Trivedi from Uttar Pradesh and its Uttarakhand unit president Mahendra Bhatt from the hill state.</p><p>None of the Union ministers, whose terms are coming to an end, were named in the list amid a strong possibility that many of them will contest the Lok Sabha polls.</p><p>However, the party is yet to name many candidates.</p>.Journalist Sagarika Ghose joins TMC, to contest Rajya Sabha election.<p>Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who represents Karnataka in Rajya Sabha, and BJP chief spokesperson and media head Anil Baluni, the outgoing MP from Uttarakhand, have not been nominated.</p><p>Both may be fielded by the party in the Lok Sabha polls, sources said.</p><p>Senior Bihar leader Sushil Kumar Modi's fate hangs in a balance as his name did not figure among the candidates named by the party.</p><p>Bihar has six vacancies and both the ruling NDA and the opposition are likely to win three seats each, going by their current strengths. The JD(U), a BJP ally, is likely to name its candidate for one seat.</p><p>R P N Singh, who comes from the politically important Krumi caste, was in the Congress before joining the BJP.</p><p>Former Haryana BJP president Subhash Barala will be the party's candidate from the state.</p><p>Elections for 56 Rajya Sabha seats spread across 15 states are scheduled to be held on February 27, and the last date for filing nominations is February 15.</p>