Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav, who came to Rajya Sabha in BJP’s first list for Lok Sabha elections, has been given ticket from Alwar, Mansukh Mandaviya of Rajasthan, Porbandar of Gujarat and Rajeev Chandrashekhar from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan and former Chief Minister of Tripura Biplab Deb have also got tickets. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has again got the ticket from Kota.
NEW DELHI :- Using the successful formula of assembly elections in three states, the BJP revealed the names of more than one-third of its candidates prior to the announcement of Lok Sabha elections. The first name in the first list of 195 candidates is that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be contesting for the third time from his old constituency Varanasi. Along with him, Rajnath Singh will again contest from Lucknow and Amit Shah from Gandhinagar.
BJP trusts Shivraj and Om Birla
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav has been given ticket from Alwar in Rajasthan, Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar in Gujarat and Rajeev Chandrasekhar from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, and Biplab Deb, former Chief Minister of Tripura, have also received tickets for lok sabha election.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has been re-nominated from Kota. Usually, the BJP replaces a substantial number of faces on its candidate list. However, the shift in the list provided so far is only noticeable in states where an opposition coalition has formed a new equation or where there is a strong anti-incumbency wave against the candidate.
Announcement of four new candidates in Delhi
Delhi is a great example of this where there has been an alliance between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party. The party has given four new names from the list of five candidates released so far. Sushma Swaraj’s daughter Bansuri Swaraj is the lo from New Delhi. A big reason for the change of some names in states like Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh is that many MPs were made to contest the assembly elections there for lok sabha election.
Announcement of candidates on state wise seats for Lok Sabaha Election.
Giving information about the candidates decided in the Central Election Committee meeting three days ago, BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde said that the Lok Sabha seats of 16 states are included in the first list.
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Sr. No | State | Total seats | Candidate |
1 | Uttar Pradesh | Â 80 | 51 |
2 | West Bengal | 42 | 20 |
3 | Madhya Pradesh | 29 | 24 |
4 | Gujarat | 26 | 15 |
5 | Kerala | 21 | 12 |
6 | Telangana | 17 | 9 |
7 | Assam | 14 | 11 |
8 | Jharkhand | 14 | 11 |
9 | Chhattisgarh | 11 | 11 |
10 | Delhi | 7 | 5 |
11 | Jammu and Kashmir | 6 | 2 |
12 | Uttarakhand | 5 | 3 |
13 | Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 2 |
14 | Tripura | 2 | 1 |
15 | Daman-Diu | 1 | 1 |
16 | Andaman Nicobar | 1 | 1 |
 | TOTAL | 198 | 128 |
BJP expressed confidence in Manoj Tiwari
In Delhi, except Manoj Tiwari, the other four faces are new. According to Vinod Tawde, all sections, societies and castes have been given representation in the selection of candidates. These include 34 women, 27 from Scheduled Castes, 18 from Scheduled Tribes and 57 from OBCs. At the same time, giving importance to youth power, 47 youth under the age of 50 have also been fielded. In Kerala, the BJP has also made a strategy to break Kerala by fielding Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar against Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram along with Congress veteran AK Antony’s son Anil Antony and actor Suresh Gopi. Congress MP Geeta Koda, who recently joined the BJP, has been given a ticket from Singhbhum.
Keeping the target of crossing 400 For Lok Sabha Election 2024
Similarly, Ritesh Pandey, who left BSP and joined BJP, has also been made the candidate from Ambedkar Nagar. 34 Union Ministers have also got a place in the first list of BJP. According to Vinod Tawde, the candidates have been selected keeping in mind the target of 370 seats for BJP and more than 400 seats for NDA. For this, after conducting a survey at the local level, the names of the candidates were discussed in the election committees of the state. Based on the reports of the state election committees, the selection of the candidates was approved in the meeting of the Central Election Committee held in the presence of Prime Minister Modi and party president JP Nadda.