NEW DELHI: The BJP on Wednesday named Jyotiraditya Scindia as its Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh soon after he joined the party.Scinida quit the Congress on Tuesday. He is an influential leader of Madhya Pradesh where 22 Congress MLAs, most of whom loyal to him, have resigned from the assembly in a bid to topple the Kamal Nath-led government.The BJP has fielded Bhubaneswar Kalita from Assam, Vivek Thakur, son of former Union Minister CP Thakur, from Bihar, Abhay Bhardwaj, Ramilaben Bara from Gujarat, Deepak Prakash from Jharkhand, Lisemba Maharaj from Manipur, Udyan Raje Bhonsle from Maharashtra and Rajendra Gehlot from Rajasthan.The Rajya Sabha candidates from the alliance parties of the BJP are Ramdas Athawale from RPI-A in Maharashtra and Biswajit Daimary of BPF in Assam.The notification for the poll was issued on March 6. The last date of filing nominations is March 13. The polling will be held between 9 am to 4 pm on March 26, which will be followed by the counting of votes at 5 pm.