Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and RCP Singh face an unsure future as union ministers a day earlier than their Rajya Sabha membership expires. BJP’s Naqvi is the Union Minority Affairs minister, whereas NDA ally JD(U)’s RCP Singh is the Union Minister of Steel. As their time period as Rajya Sabha members ends on July 7, each ministers will lose their place if they don’t seem to be elected to any House of the Parliament inside six months. In the not too long ago concluded Upper House elections, each their names weren’t included within the checklist of nominees by their respective events.
Ahead of the byelections in Uttar Pradesh, many stories advised that Naqvi could be the possible BJP candidate from the Rampur constituency. The social gathering had fielded Ghanshyam Lodhi as a substitute in Samajwadi Party stalwart Azam Khan’s stronghold. Naqvi, who’s the one Muslim minister in PM Narendra Modi’s cupboard, hails from Rampur. Now, contemporary stories declare that the ruling social gathering on the Centre might suggest Naqvi’s title for the upcoming vice-presidential elections or might supply him the Governor/Lieutenant Governor position in some state or Union Territory.
After JD(U)’s RCP Singh fell out with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over Singh’s alleged proximity to BJP, the social gathering didn’t subject him as a candidate for the not too long ago concluded Rajya Sabha elections. Kumar was purportedly sad with Singh for not consulting him earlier than taking over the ministerial position on the Centre final yr. Kumar even went on to allot Singh’s bungalow, the place he was staying for the final ten years, to his Chief Secretary.
Amid rumours of Singh becoming a member of BJP, the social gathering clarified that the previous JD(U) nationwide president hasn’t joined the social gathering but. Furthermore, the BJP Telangana’s tweet welcoming Singh to the recently-held BJP Executive Meet at Hyderabad had fueled additional speculations.
As many as 12 members will be nominated by the President to the Rajya Sabha. It remains to be not clear if these two ministers might be nominated after the presidential polls with seven seats nonetheless empty within the Upper House.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”