In Bihar, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wanted a third term but was denied it by his party. BJP general secretary Rajiv Pratap Rudy was also denied the ticket.
Leaders who were in the fray in Bihar included N.K Singh of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), C.P Thakur (BJP), central minister Prem Chand Gupta from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Sabir Ali of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), and Govind Pandey, Independent supported by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The elections dented the Samajwadi Party in Bihar, which had only two members in the assembly. Both of them, Debnath Prasad Yadav and Gopal Agarwal, resigned from the party to protest against its decision to support candidates of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
Bihar leaders including Janata Dal (U) national spokesperson Shivanand Tiwari, former State Planning Board Deputy Chairperson N. K. Singh, Central Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Premchand Gupta, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) candidate Sabir Ali, and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dr. C. P. Thakur were elected for the Rajya Sabha seats following elections on 26 March.
Election official S. P. Sharma announced the results in the afternoon saying the most votes garnered by any of the candidates from Bihar went to the former Union Health Minister and BJP leader Dr. Thakur (55 votes) followed closely by Tiwari (48), Singh (47), Gupta (44), and Ali (40).
Independent candidate Govind Pandey managed to get only one vote. 235 out of 243 members of the Bihar Assembly took part in voting.
The three elected Rajya Sabha members from the NDA camp, Thakur, Tiwari, and Singh said they would take up Bihar's cause in the Parliament to demand for equal and fair treatment of the state and an end to the discriminatory attitude towards Bihar.
The three leaders then met with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in his chamber at Bihar Assembly who then congratulated them for their victories and wished them luck in their new avatar as the Rajya Sabha MPs.
Earlier, the JD(U) boycotted the informal daily National Democratic Alliance leaders’ meetings in the last 20 days of the first part of the budget session in March as it was annoyed that BJP was drawing its leaders into its fold.
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Green Hope
Promises to green every square inch of space in the city (Navi Mumbai)
Vashi “planting trees is the only way of neutralizing the impact of global warming from that point of view, the programme of planting 2,00,000 saplings launched by NGO Green Hope is laudable,” said Environment Minister Ganesh Naik at Vashi on Sunday. He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the programme . Film star Sachin Khedekar was the Chief Guest.
The organization has prepared 16 varieties of saplings including Raintree, Gulmohur, Kadamba, Limbu, Suru, Jambul, Badam, Accacia, saptaparni, awala,parijaat, Bakul and bel.
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