The battle for Rajya Sabha nominations

Five Rajya Sabha members from Bihar, all from the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) - Gulam Rasool Balyawi, Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, K C Tyagi, Pavan Kumar Varma and Sharad Yadav - are set to retire in July this year. Who among them will be re-nominated? Varma might get another term - he had introduced poll strategist Prashant Kishor to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Then the JD-U, along with Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal and smaller parties that formed the Janata Parivar alliance, won the state Assembly elections. Varma, a former Indian Foreign Service officer, is Kumar's public relations advisor. Singh is a retired civil servant who helped Kumar return to power. Kumar is quite fond of Tyagi. But there are multiple demands on Bihar. Lalu Prasad wants to nominate both daughter Misa Bharati (to get her out of Bihar and out of the hair of her brothers) and wife Rabri Devi to the Rajya Sabha, largely for real estate reasons: He does not have a house in Delhi and is currently living in the house allotted to Prem Chand Gupta. Both Bharati and Rabri Devi would be entitled to houses then, but the one allotted to the latter would be bigger. Will Yadav's membership to the Rajya Sabha be the casualty in all this?