Announcing 11 candidates for the June 18 Rajya Sabha election, BJP did not re-nominate Minister of State for Railways and Food Processing, Ravneet Singh Bittu, from Rajasthan, and MoS Fisheries, George Kurian, from Madhya Pradesh. The party has instead nominated National General Secretary Tarun Chugh from Madhya Pradesh and Haryana BJP in-charge Satish Poonia from Rajasthan.