New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday declared 111 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in its latest list. This did not include Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi’s name. Uttar Pradesh minister Jitin Prasada, who joined the BJP in 2021, was fielded from his seat instead. The BJP, however, has fielded Varun’s mother, Maneka Gandhi, … Read more
Mumbai: Pankaja Munde instead of Pritam Munde, Piyush Goyal instead of Gopal Shetty, a third term for Nitin Gadkari and a push for Sudhir Mungantiwar to enter national politics. In its first list of candidates for Maharashtra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gave nominations to some of its strongest names from the state, repeating most of … Read more
In the first list, the lone Muslim candidate is Calicut University’s former V-C Abdul Salam, who will contest from Kerala’s Malappuram. Of the 195 candidates, 28 are women, 47 are below the age of 50 years, who the BJP referred to as ‘youth’, 27 candidates are from the Scheduled Castes, 18 belong to Scheduled Tribes … Read more
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced the second list of candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha Biennial Elections to be held in various states. The BJP has fielded Union Minister L Murugan, Maya Narollya, Bansilal Gurjar and Umesh Nath Maharai from Madhya Pradesh. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will contest from Odisha. The Union … Read more
“The party is assessing the survey reports of these MPs and looking at who can be a stronger candidate on these seats. Normally, the party considers several factors before denying tickets to sitting MPs/MLAs with a weak performance report, or before choosing to field a new candidate for a seat. Two types of MPs are … Read more