The ruling BJP on Thursday nominated its national general secretary Tarun Chugh and Haryana state in-charge Satish Poonia for the Rajya Sabha elections, due on June 18.In a list of 11 nominees, the party announced the name of Chugh, who belongs to Amritsar, from Madhya Pradesh and Poonia from Rajasthan. That a Cabinet reshuffle may be imminent is indicative considering the BJP list does not feature Union Minister Ravneet Bittu, whose Rajya Sabha term from Rajasthan is coming to an end soon.Another minister who has not been renominated is George Kurian, who was representing Madhya Pradesh in the Upper House.The list has come barely hours after Bittu expressed a desire to work in Punjab having spent nearly 17 years in Parliament. He said he wanted to contest the Assembly elections in the state.The Tribune had reported earlier that after a revamp of the BJP organisation, which began with the appointment of new presidents in states, including Punjab and Delhi recently, a Union Cabinet reshuffle could be on the cards.Lack of renominations for Bittu and Kurian means they may be moved from the Council of Ministers to the organisation. Bittu is likely to be drafted for a role in the Punjab elections.In Rajasthan and MP, where the BJP expects to win two seats each out of the three going to the polls, the party has named both candidates.Alka Gurjar and Satish Poonia have been named from Rajasthan. Senior BJP hands Tarun Chugh and Rajneesh Agrawal are BJP nominees from MP. Chugh’s nomination is significant on the eve of the Punjab elections, as he is a senior Hindu face of the party in the state.From Odisha, the BJP has named Debashish Samantaray, who recently quit the Biju Janata Dal for the BJP.The party has nominated A Sharda Devi from the lone seat it hopes to win in Manipur and all four candidates for four seats due for elections in Gujarat.Tai Tagak has been nominated from Arunachal Pradesh.The Election Commission had on May 22 announced the elections for 26 Rajya Sabha seats on June 18. Among the outgoing MPs are former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and Shakti Sinh Gohil and NCP’s Jattvibeetra Pawar.Elections are due for four seats each in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka, three seats each in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two seats in Jharkhand and one seat each in Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram. One seat each will go to the polls in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Of these 26 seats, the NDA currently has 18, the Congress has four, the YSRCP three and the JMM one.