VIJAYAWADA: YSR Congress Party on Monday named Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) group president Parimal Nathwani as one of its candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections from Andhra Pradesh. A sitting MP in the RS as an independent from Jharkhand, Nathwani is due to retire on April 2.YSRCP also named industrialist Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy and two ministers in the Jagan Mohan Reddy cabinet, Pilli Subhaschandra Bose and Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, as its candidates for the March 26 polls. In the 175-member assembly, YSRCP, with its 151 MLAs, is in a position to win all the four Rajya Sabha seats from the state.The announcement of Nathwani’s candidature comes days after recent meeting of RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani with the CM. Ambani flew down to Amaravati to meet the CM.Expressing his appreciation, Nathwani tweeted, “I sincerely thank Hon’ble CM Sh @ysjagan and his party @YSRCParty for considering me as their Rajya Sabha candidate from Andhra Pradesh. I am committed to serve the people of #AndhraPradesh”. Nathwani is a two-time independent MP in the Upper House from Jharkhand.Bose and Ramana were picked for RS since they would be losing their membership of the legislative council, thereby ceasing to be ministers, as the assembly had passed a resolution seeking the dissolution of the legislative council. Both of them belong to backward class communities and were staunch loyalists of Jagan’s father, the late CM Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.