New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has unveiled its first checklist of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, with the utmost variety of nominees – 51, coming from the politically essential state of Uttar Pradesh, the place the BJP has set a lofty objective of successful greater than 75 of the entire 80 seats. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is essentially the most distinguished title within the first checklist of the BJP for Parliamentary elections. PM Modi will run for re-election to Lok Sabha from the Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He has been combating from there since 2014.
Some different huge names are Union Minister Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, and his Cabinet colleague, Smriti Irani from Amethi. Smriti Irani, who delivered a crushing defeat to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Amethi within the 2019 polls, will once more run for re-election to Lok Sabha from this seat.
Other widespread faces operating for Lok Sabha polls on BJP ticket from Uttar Pradesh embrace former minister Mahesh Sharma (Gautam Budh Nagar), Satyapal Singh (Agra), actress-turned-politician Hema Malini (Mathura), Ravi Kishen (Gorakhpur), Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua (Azamgarh), Sanjeev Balyan (Muzaffarnagar), Ajay Mishra Teni (Lakhimpur Kheri), Mahendra Nath Pandey (Chandauli), (*51*) Niranjan Jyoti (Fatehpur), Sakshi Maharaj (Unnao), amongst others.
Nirahua, a preferred Bhojpuri actor-singer, created a stir in Samajwadi Party’s circles in 2019 elections by wresting Azamgarh, the celebration’s stronghold, whereas Ravi Kishen received Gorakhpur LS seat by an enormous margin. Revealing its Mission 2024, the celebration introduced candidates from all around the nation.
The checklist, that includes 34 sitting ministers and a pair of former Chief Ministers, together with 28 feminine nominees, 47 youth candidates, 57 nominees from OBC, displays the celebration’s social engineering technique to attraction to the voters, throughout all segments.
The celebration, prepared for the electoral battle, introduced the names of candidates, effectively over a month earlier than the elections, to offer the nominees extra time to achieve out and mobilise voters on the bottom.
The celebration, nevertheless, stunned everybody in Delhi because it dropped all its sitting MPs, besides Manoj Tiwari.
The new names who received celebration tickets for Delhi’s Lok Sabha constituencies embrace Praveen Khandelwal from Chandni Chowk, Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi and Ramvir Bidhuri from South Delhi.
The celebration’s selections for Lok Sabha seats in Delhi have left everybody, together with political observers, puzzled and perplexed over the sudden shake-up.
Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of late BJP chief and former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, is among the many youngest faces to get fielded on the BJP ticket.
Some different potential headlines are:
BJP nominates PM Modi from Varanasi, drops Pragya Singh Thakur from Bhopal in first checklist of candidates
BJP declares first checklist of candidates, PM Modi to struggle from Varanasi, Smriti Irani from Amethi
BJP unveils first checklist of 195 candidates, PM Modi, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani amongst huge names