Ambika quits RS, to be renominated from Punjab

NEW DELHI, June 11 (UNI) All India Congress general secretary Ambika Soni has resigned as a member of the Rajya Sabha, reportedly to make way for former Lok Sabha deputy speaker P M Sayeed who is now a union minister to enter the upper house.

Soni was a RS member from Delhi and still has about 18 months left of tenure.

Congress sources said that she would be nominated for the Rajya Sabha elections from Punjab.

The Congress is finalising a list of eleven candidates for the Rajya Sabha today, and was confident of winning at least six of these.