Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has thus far introduced a complete of 267 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, to be held in April and May. The social gathering declared candidates in two totally different lists. The first list of 195 candidates was introduced on March 9 and the second list of 72 candidates was introduced on Wednesday (March 13).
According to the candidates’ announcement thus far, the social gathering has retained numerous large faces together with Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, and Smriti Irani amongst others but it surely has additionally dropped numerous controversial candidates for the upcoming polls. Let’s check out sitting MPs who haven’t been re-nominated.
Bhopal MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur
BJP has dropped its sitting MP from Bhopal, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur within the upcoming polls. Pragya Singh Thakur has made numerous controversial statements together with one on Godse.
She referred to Godse as a patriot in a single of her speeches within the Parliament and confronted huge backlash.
The BJP denounced her statements and stripped her of her place on the consultative committee on defence. She was additionally prevented from taking part in parliamentary social gathering conferences in the course of the 2019 winter session.
Ramesh Bidhuri, incumbent South Delhi MP
BJP’s sitting South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri has additionally been dropped within the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Ramesh Bidhuri was slammed for his objectionable remarks towards BSP chief Danish Ali.
His remarks had been later expunged from the Parliament data.
Parvesh Verma, sitting West Delhi MP
Incumbent West Delhi MP, Parvesh Verma, has additionally been dropped by the BJP. Parvesh Verma was surrounded in an issue after he made objectionable feedback, calling for a complete financial boycott of a specific neighborhood in October final yr.
Jayant Sinha, incumbent MP, Hazaribag
Sitting Hazaribag MP and son of former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, Jayant Sinha has not been re-nominated by the saffron social gathering.
According to reviews, Jayant Sinha requested the social gathering to relieve him from direct electoral duties.
Also in 2019, Sinha revealed that he together with different social gathering leaders supplied monetary help to pay authorized charges of the individuals accused of lynching a meat dealer in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh in 2017.
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