New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday decided to field former union minister Ram Jethmalani from Rajasthan and former MP Ajay Maru from Jharkhand in the Rajya Sabha elections.

A BJP statement said that party president Nitin Gadkari had nominated Jethmalani as the candidate for the second seat in Rajasthan and Maru as its nominee from Jharkhand for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha.

The party has already declared V.P. Singh as its candidate from Rajasthan.