Prabhu, Birender to file Rajya Sabha nominations from Haryana Tuesday

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and union Rural Development Minister Birender Singh will file their nominations for the two Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana Tuesday.

With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) having a clear majority in the 90-member assembly, both union ministers are likely to be elected unopposed to the upper house of Parliament.

Prabhu was recently inducted into the Narendra Modi government and had joined the BJP just before becoming a minister. He belongs to Maharashtra and was earlier with the Shiv Sena.

Birender Singh, who left the Congress August this year after being with the party for 42 years and joined the BJP before Haryana's assembly polls, was also inducted as a union cabinet minister.

He had quit his Rajya Sabha seat from Haryana in August this year after quitting the Congress.

With the two new union ministers likely to be elected from Haryana to the Rajya Sabha, the representation of the state in the Modi government will go up further.

Haryana already has three union ministers - External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (who belongs to Haryana), Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh (Gurgaon MP) and minister of state Krishan Pal Gujjar (Faridabad MP).