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Roopa Ganguly, Famous As Draupadi Of Mahabharat, Nominated To Rajya Sabha

Darpan News Desk IANS, 04 Oct, 2016 01:24 PM
    BJP leader and actor Roopa Ganguly was on Tuesday nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
     
    A Home Ministry release said she had been nominated to the upper house by President Pranab Mukherjee to fill a vacancy of nominated member. 
     
    Ganguly had come into the limelight with her role of Draupadi in television serial 'Mahabharat'. She had contested polls as a BJP candidate in West Bengal. 
     
    The vacancy in the category of nominated members had arisen following the resignation of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu of the Bharatiya Janata Party from the upper house. 

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