As India braces for the overall elections to the 543 contested seats within the decrease home of parliament, generally known as the Lok Sabha, anticipation and preparations are underway throughout the nation. The Lok Sabha elections decide the composition of the central authorities for a five-year time period. A celebration or coalition should safe a easy majority of 272 seats to type the federal government. In the earlier elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) clinched 303 seats, whereas the principle opposition, the Indian National Congress (INC), secured 52 seats.
Apart from the contested seats, the President of India has the authority to appoint as much as two Anglo-Indians to the Lok Sabha. The elections shall be performed in seven phases to make sure satisfactory safety at polling stations throughout the expansive nation. Voters will forged their ballots utilizing digital voting machines (EVMs), a expertise launched in India in 1982 and broadly adopted because the early 2000s.
As India gears up for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, a number of former chief ministers have thrown their hats into the political ring, vying for parliamentary seats throughout the nation.
Here’s a better have a look at some of the notable contenders:
Former Chief Ministers contesting the Lok Sabha Elections 2024:
| S no. |
List of former Chief Ministers
|
Constituencies |
| 1. | Narendra Modi (BJP) | Varanasi |
| 2. | Rajnath Singh (BJP) | Lucknow |
| 3. | Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP) | Vidisha |
| 4. | Manohar Lal Khattar (BJP) | Karnal |
| 5. | Arjun Munda (BJP) | Khunti |
| 6. | Jagadish Shettar (BJP) | Belgaum |
| 7. | Basavaraj Bommai (BJP) | Haveri |
| 8. | Trivendra Singh Rawat (BJP) | Haridwar |
| 9. | HD Kumaraswamy (JDS) | Mandya |
| 10. | Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy (BJP) | Rajampet |
| 11. | Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP) | Dibrugarh |
| 12. | Biplab Kumar Deb (BJP) | Tripura West |
| 13. | O Paneerselvam (Independent backed by BJP) | Ramanathapuram |
| 14. | Jitan Ram Manjhi (HAM-S) | Gaya |
| 15. | Digvijaya Singh (Congress) | Rajgarh |
| 16. | Bhupesh Baghel (Congress) | Rajnandgaon |
| 17. | Omar Abdullah (JKNC) | Baramulla |
| 18. | Mehbooba Mufti (JKPDP) | Anantnag-Rajouri |
| 19. | Charanjit Singh Channi (Congress) | Jalandhar |
| 20. | Ghulam Nabi Azad (DPAP) | Anantnag-Rajouri |
| 21. | Nabam Tuki (Congress) | Arunachal West |
| 22. | V Vaithilingam (Congress) | Puducherry |
BJP’s Jagdambika Pal is once more contesting from the Domariyaganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh within the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for sooner or later in 1998. However, his time period had been declared unconstitutional by the Allahabad High Court.
Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress social gathering (Former Haryana CM) and Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (Former CM of Uttar Pradesh) are additionally more likely to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
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