BJP first list: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at present (March 2) launched its first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024. 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 list.
While saying the first list, BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde mentioned, “PM Modi to contest Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, Union Minister for Law 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.”
Home Minister Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar whereas Mansukh Mandaviya will contest from Porbandar.
“The names of 195 candidates have been finalised. The list includes 47 youth candidates, 28 women candidates, 27 Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 18 Scheduled Tribes (ST) candidates and 57 OBC/Backward Class candidates. The party has announced the list keeping all communities in focus,” mentioned BJP chief Vinod Tawde whereas addressing the media 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 External Affairs minister, late Sushma Swaraj’s daughter Bansuri Swaraj has been fielded from New Delhi. Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to contest from Lucknow, Smriti Irani will once more contest from Amethi. Ajay Mishra Teni, MOS Home 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 effectively.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 Traders chief, to contest from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk. Pragya Singh Thakur has been dropped. The announcement of the candidate list 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 National President JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Organisation General Secretary BL Santosh, Chief Ministers, State Presidents, In-charges, Co-Incharges, and Election In-charges of varied states had been current on this assembly. Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Assam, Uttarakhand, and Goa had been current on the assembly.
Earlier within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi secured a victory in Varanasi with 6,74,664 in opposition to Congress’s Ajay Rai. The BJP-led National Democratic (NDA) gained 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-(*195*) this yr.
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