NEW DELHI: Days prior to Parliament meets for the monsoon session, BJP added to its strength in Rajya Sabha with four new “nominated contributors” — former BJP MP and Dalit leader Ram Shakal, pro-RSS academic and columnist Rakesh Sinha and artistes Raghunath Mohapatra and Sonal Mansingh.
Mohapatra is a well-known sculptor and with BJP hoping to make beneficial properties in Odisha, his choice meets a political plan too. Mansingh is a veteran classical dancer within the Bharatanatyam and Odissi styles.
The addition raises BJP numbers to 69, expanding its lead over Congress that has 50 MPs within the Upper House. BJP and its allies are still neatly wanting a majority within the House which has currently 244 MPs with one emptiness but the numbers are closer if it manages to rope in parties like AIADMK, BJD and Independents on specific issues or bills.
A former three-time BJP Lok Sabha MP from Roberstganj in Uttar Pradesh, Shakal is a Dalit leader and his nomination underlines the birthday celebration’s sturdy bid to woo the scheduled castes with BSP and SP coming in combination within the state.
Sinha has steadily defended BJP and the RSS within the media and has researched in organising that the RSS did take part within the freedom struggle versus claims that it chose to keep out of the movement. All four have been nominated by means of President Ram Nath Kovind at the recommendation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Shakal is noticed as a farmer leader championing the reason for Dalits and migrant labourers, Sinha is founder and honorary director of the Delhi-based think-tank India Policy Foundation. A professor on the Motilal Nehu College of the Delhi University, he is member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
Mohapatra is an internationally renowned authority on stone carving who has contributed to the preservation of traditional sculpture and historic monuments. He has worked on beautification of the Jagannath Temple in Puri. His famous works additionally come with a statue of the Sun God carved in grey sandstone, within the Central Hall of Parliament and the Wooden Buddha on the Buddha temple in Paris.
Mansingh is amongst India’s primary exponents of Indian classical dance for over six a long time. She founded the Centre for Indian Classical Dances in Delhi in 1977.
Mohapatra is a well-known sculptor and with BJP hoping to make beneficial properties in Odisha, his choice meets a political plan too. Mansingh is a veteran classical dancer within the Bharatanatyam and Odissi styles.
The addition raises BJP numbers to 69, expanding its lead over Congress that has 50 MPs within the Upper House. BJP and its allies are still neatly wanting a majority within the House which has currently 244 MPs with one emptiness but the numbers are closer if it manages to rope in parties like AIADMK, BJD and Independents on specific issues or bills.
A former three-time BJP Lok Sabha MP from Roberstganj in Uttar Pradesh, Shakal is a Dalit leader and his nomination underlines the birthday celebration’s sturdy bid to woo the scheduled castes with BSP and SP coming in combination within the state.
Sinha has steadily defended BJP and the RSS within the media and has researched in organising that the RSS did take part within the freedom struggle versus claims that it chose to keep out of the movement. All four have been nominated by means of President Ram Nath Kovind at the recommendation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Shakal is noticed as a farmer leader championing the reason for Dalits and migrant labourers, Sinha is founder and honorary director of the Delhi-based think-tank India Policy Foundation. A professor on the Motilal Nehu College of the Delhi University, he is member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
Mohapatra is an internationally renowned authority on stone carving who has contributed to the preservation of traditional sculpture and historic monuments. He has worked on beautification of the Jagannath Temple in Puri. His famous works additionally come with a statue of the Sun God carved in grey sandstone, within the Central Hall of Parliament and the Wooden Buddha on the Buddha temple in Paris.
Mansingh is amongst India’s primary exponents of Indian classical dance for over six a long time. She founded the Centre for Indian Classical Dances in Delhi in 1977.
RSS scholar, ex-BJP MP nominated to Rajya Sabha
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