NEW DELHI: The Congress launched its sixth checklist of 5 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu on Monday. The occasion has introduced 4 candidates from Rajasthan and one from Tamil Nadu. In Rajasthan, the occasion has fielded Ramchandra Choudhary from the Ajmer Lok Sabha seat, Sudarshan Rawat from Rajsamand, Damodar Gurjar from Bhilwara, whereas Prahlad Gunjal will face Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla within the Kota constituency.
Rajasthan has 25 parliamentary constituencies. The state will vote in two phases. Phase 1 (April 19) will see polling on 12 seats, whereas the remaining 13 seats will go for polling within the second part (April 26). In Tamil Nadu, C Robert Bruce will contest on a Congress ticket from the Tirunelveli constituency. Tamil Nadu will vote on all 39 Lok Sabha seats on April 19.
The Congress additional said that Tharahai Cuthbert will contest the bye-election from the Vilavancode constituency in Tamil Nadu. Earlier, the Congress occasion on Sunday launched the fifth checklist of three candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, naming Pratap Singh Khachariyawas from Jaipur, changing Sunil Sharma as introduced earlier.
While, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday launched its fifth checklist of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP has launched the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut has been fielded from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, a stronghold of Congress.The occasion has additionally fielded veteran actor Arun Govil, who performed the character of Lord Ram in Ramanand Sagar’s ‘Ramayan’ from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut. The election for 543 Lok Sabha seats will likely be held in seven phases beginning April 19. Nearly 97 crore voters are eligible to forged votes within the basic election.
The Congress has introduced names for 190 constituencies, whereas the BJP has introduced names for 402 Lok Sabha seats to date. The counting of votes will happen on June 4. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) gained 303 seats, whereas the Indian National Congress (INC) managed to get solely 52 seats.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) gained 282 seats, whereas the Indian National Congress (INC) managed to get solely 44 seats.
