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.<br/><br/>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.