India, March 5 -- BJP's Sanjay Bhatia and Congress' Karamvir Singh Boudh filed their nomination papers in Chandigarh on Thursday for the two Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana falling vacant on April 9. The vacancies arise as the terms of BJP members Kiran Choudhry and Ram Chander Jangra come to an end.

With the 90-member Haryana assembly requiring 31 votes per candidate for a win, the ruling BJP (48 MLAs + 3 Independents) and the Congress (37 MLAs) are positioned to comfortably secure one seat each.

Accompanied by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini and state party president Mohan Lal Badoli, Bhatia, 58, filed his papers following a meeting with the CM at his residence.

A former Karnal MP and confidant of Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar, ...