New Delhi, March 2: Bharatiya Janata Get together on Saturday launched its first listing of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi once more. Of 195 candidates, 34 are Ministers from Centre and States whereas two are former Chief Ministers who’re within the listing.
Whereas asserting the primary listing, BJP Nationwide Basic Secretary Vinod Tawde stated, “PM Modi to contest Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, Union Minister for Legislation and Justice Kiran Rijiju to contest from Arunachal West, BJP MP Bishnu Pada Ray to contest from Andaman & Nicobar, BJP MP Tapir Gao to contest from Arunachal East, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal to contest from Dibrugarh.” BJP First Candidate Listing for Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Out: From PM Narendra Modi From Varanasi to Smriti Irani From Amethi and Shivraj Singh Chouhan From Vidhisha; Test Full Listing.
BJP Releases First Listing of 195 Candidates
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Names of 195 BJP leaders launched by the celebration in its first listing of candidates for Lok Sabha elections pic.twitter.com/vQS0l1coZl
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Residence Minister Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar whereas Mansukh Mandaviya will contest from Porbandar. “The names of 195 candidates have been finalised. The listing contains 47 youth candidates, 28 ladies candidates, 27 Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 18 Scheduled Tribes (ST) candidates and 57 OBC/Backward Class candidates. The celebration has introduced the listing preserving all communities in focus,” stated BJP chief Vinod Tawde whereas addressing the media right here in Delhi.
Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar will contest from Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will contest from Dibrugarh, Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal Pradesh. Former Exterior Affairs minister, late Sushma Swaraj’s daughter Bansuri Swaraj has been fielded from New Delhi. BJP MP Jayant Sinha Expresses Need Not To Contest 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to contest from Lucknow, Smriti Irani will once more contest from Amethi. Ajay Mishra Teni,MOS Residence will once more contest from Khiri. BJP chief Alok Sharma to contest from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh whereas former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to contest from Vidisha.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined BJP from Congress in 2020, to contest from Guna in Madhya Pradesh. BJP introduced Lok Sabha candidates for five Delhi seats as properly. BJP chief Manoj Tiwari will contest from North-East Delhi. Late chief Sushma Swaraj’s daughter Bansuri Swara will contest from New Delhi. Kamaljeet Sehrawat will contest from West Delhi and Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from South Delhi. Praveen Khandelwal, Confederation of All India Merchants chief, to contest from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk. Pragya Singh Thakur has been dropped.
The announcement of the candidate listing follows a marathon assembly of the central election committee (CEC) of the BJP within the early hours of Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP’s Nationwide President JP Nadda, Residence Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Organisation Basic Secretary BL Santosh, Chief Ministers, State Presidents, In-charges, Co-Incharges, and Election In-charges of assorted states have been current on this assembly. Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Assam, Uttarakhand, and Goa have been current on the assembly.
Earlier within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi secured a victory in Varanasi with 6,74,664 towards Congress’s Ajay Rai. The BJP-led Nationwide Democratic (NDA) received a complete of 303 seats, leaving the grand-old celebration behind at 52 seats. The Lok Sabha polls are slated to be held in April-Might this yr.
