Biswajit Daimary files nomination for Rajya Sabha by-election

GUWAHATI: Former Rajya Sabha member Biswajit Daimary today filed nomination for by-election to one vacant seat in the Upper House of the Parliament scheduled for March 1.

He will seek a re-election from Assam to the Rajya Sabha representing the ruling BJP. 

The seat fell vacant following his own resignation on November 21 last year from the seat to relinquish Bodoland People's Front and later on join the BJP ahead of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) polls.

He filed the nomination soon after the BJP Central Election Committee cleared his candidature from the party. The Committee has also nominated N Ramchander Rao and Gujjula Premender Reddy as party candidates for biennial elections to two legislative council seats in Telangana.

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He was accompanied by Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, MLAs Ranuj Pegu and Bhuban Pegu while filing nomination.

With no other candidate collecting nomination papers, Daimary is likely to be elected unopposed, BJP sources said. The last date for filing the nomination is February 18 and the scrutiny of the nomination papers will be done on February 19.

If elected, it will be Daimary's third term in the Rajya Sabha after he was first elected for the 2008 to 2014 and again from 2014 to 2020.