India, Oct. 28 -- Union minister Hardeep Puri is the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) candidate for the upcoming by-election to the Rajya Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh that fell vacant after Union minister of state for information and broadcasting L Murugan resigned.

The by-election will be held on November 12.

Puri's term as a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh is set to end in November. He was not renominated from the state earlier this month, with the BJP fielding eight new faces for the upcoming elections in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.

Murugan, who also holds the parliamentary affairs portfolio, resigned from both the Union Council of Ministers and the Rajya Sabha, despite his term as a member of the Upper House being scheduled to end ...