New Delhi : Former central minister Sushma Swaraj and firebrand Hindutva leader Vinay Katiyar were Friday named among nine Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections March 28.

Swaraj will be fielded from Madhya Pradesh and Katiyar from Uttar Pradesh, the BJP's Central Election Committee decided at a meeting here chaired by party chief Rajnath Singh.

The following is the list of candidates:

Maharashtra - Bal Apte, Jharkhand - Surendra Singh Ahluwalia, Chhattisgarh - Gopalji Vyas, Uttar Pradesh - Kalraj Mishra, Vinay Katiyar, Madhya Pradesh - Sushma Swaraj, Vikram Verma, Narayan Singh Kesari, Anusuya Uikey.

The BJP has also decided to field Ashok Dhawan and Ram Naresh Rawat for the elections to the Uttar Pradesh legislative council.

Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh were among those who attended the meeting.

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