India, March 5 -- The opposition Congress in Chhattisgarh has renominated senior tribal leader Phulo Devi Netam, the sitting Rajya Sabha member, as its candidate for the biennial Rajya Sabha elections scheduled on March 16. The party announced Netam's candidature on Wednesday night.

Of the five Rajya Sabha members from the state, the terms of Netam and Kavi Tejpal Singh Tulsi, both from the Congress, will expire on April 9. Elections are being held to fill the two vacancies.

The other Rajya Sabha members from Chhattisgarh are Ranjeet Ranjan and Rajiv Shukla of the Congress and Devendra Pratap Singh of the BJP.

Netam (54), who hails from Kondagaon district in Bastar region, was first elected as a legislator in 1998 in the undivided Madh...