The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)’s second list of 72 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections was introduced on Wednesday. The list included a number of surprises, including fielding Union Minister Piyush Goyal and former (*72*) chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who resigned on Tuesday from Karnal and Mumbai North respectively.
The ruling occasion additionally dropped a number of sitting MPs including former Union ministers Sadananda Gowda and Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’.
The Haveri MP and BJP chief Shivkumar Udasi was dropped from his seat which he held since 2009. Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai changed him.
Ramesh Pokhriyal was additionally not given a ticket from his constituency Haridwar. Former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat changed him.
BJP chief spokesperson Anil Baluni can even be preventing his first Lok Sabha ballot because the BJP fielded him from Garhwal, changing former Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat.
In the Beed constituency in Maharashtra, Pankaja Munde has changed her sister and incumbent MP Pritam Munde.
Delhi: BJP drops 6 MPs out of 7
The BJP declared former mayors Harsh Malhotra and Yogendra Chandolia because the candidates from East Delhi and North West Delhi seats, respectively for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, dropping the occasion’s sitting MPs Gautam Gambhir and Hans Raj Hans.
With this, the BJP has named candidates for all seven Lok Sabha seats in the nationwide capital, dropping six incumbents.Â
In its first list, the BJP introduced the candidates on 5 of the seven Lok Sabha seats. Except for Manoj Tiwari, two-time MP from North East Delhi, the BJP has changed six of its sitting MPs with new names.
Gujarat: Five MPs dropped
BJP introduced names of seven extra candidates in Gujarat, which has 26 Lok Sabha seats, dropping 5 sitting MPs, including junior Railway minister Darshana Jardosh, and changing them with new faces.
Instead of Jardosh, a three-time Member of Parliament, the occasion has chosen Mukesh Dalal for the Surat Lok Sabha constituency.
Four different sitting MPs who’ve been denied tickets are — Dipsinh Rathod from Sabarkantha, KC Patel from Valsad, Bhartiben Shiyal from Bhavnagar and Geetaben Rathwa from Chhota Udepur.
Maharashtra: Eight MPs dropped
Pankaja Munde (Beed) have been amongst eight contemporary faces in the list. Pankaja changed her youthful sister and sitting MP Pritam Munde in Beed, the household stronghold.
Another new face in the second list was state forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar (Chandrapur). Besides, all Union ministers from Maharashtra got tickets once more.
The occasion changed Jalgaon Lok Sabha member Unmesh Patil by fielding native chief Smita Wagh. Anup Dhotre changed his father and sitting Akola MP Sanjay Dhotre in the list.
Tripura: BJP names Tipra Motha chief’s sisterÂ
The BJP introduced that Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma, a member of the erstwhile royal household of Tripura, will contest the Lok Sabha election from the East Tripura (ST) constituency. Kriti Singh Debbarma can be the sister of Pradyot Debbarma, the scion of the royal household and founder of the Tipra Motha, which joined the BJP-led authorities in the northeastern state earlier this month.
(With PTI inputs)
