Actress and BJP leader Roopa Ganguly has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha. President Pranab Mukherjee has approved her name. She has been nominated on a seat vacated by cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who resigned in July this year.
Ganguly had joined the BJP last year and lost in the West Bengal assembly polls. She is well known for her role in TV serial Mahabharat.