India, June 8 -- Council elections

Prof. M. Nagaraja is BJP candidate for Rajya Sabha seat

Just a day ahead of the deadline for filing nominations, the BJP late last evening announced its candidates for the upcoming elections to the Legislative Council and Rajya Sabha from Karnataka.

The party named State BJP OBC Morcha President Raghu Kautilya and Lingaraj Patil as its candidates for the Legislative Council polls from the Karnataka Assembly segment. The BJP is contesting the elections in alliance with the JD(S) in the State.

For the Rajya Sabha seat, the party announced Prof. M. Nagaraja as its nominee. With this decision, speculation over the BJP-led NDA possibly renominating JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda h...