BJP may field tainted duo Yeddy, Kushwaha for Rajya Sabha

January 16, 2012 13:09

Our Delhi correspondent writes in to say that the BJP will host a makar sankranti lunch for its leaders where the media is also invited. At 3 pm today, the BJP will release its list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh. Political circles are rife with rumours that that the BJP might field B S Yeddyurappa and Babu Singh Kushwaha to the Rajya Sabha in March from Karnataka and UP respectively.

As an aside, a union Minister has sent an email to Vice President Hamid Ansari asking him to avoid attending a function today organised by a leading English daily newspaper.

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