In its second list of 72 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP dismissed 28 incumbent Members and nominated nine Union ministers and three former chief governments.
After announcing 267 candidates thus far, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unveiled its second list of 72 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections on Wednesday. NDTV stated that approximately 21% of current Members of Parliament have not been re-elected from their respective seats.
Out of the 195 candidates listed, only 33 MPs were replaced in the first list, whilst 30 MPs were replaced in the second list of 72 names. In all, 140 incumbent Members of Parliament have been replicated, and 67—two of whom chose not to run—have not received tickets.
Twenty applicants from each of the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, seven from Gujarat, six from Telangana and Haryana, five from Madhya Pradesh, two from Delhi, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, and one from Dadra and Nagar Haveli are included in the second list.
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New Delhi
All but one sitting member of parliament, Manoj Tiwari of North East Delhi, was replaced by the party in the nation’s capital. This time, five out of the six MPs removed were incumbents since 2014: Harsh Vardhan, Meenakshi Lekhi, Pravesh Sahib Singh, and Ramesh Bidhuri.
The Maharashtra
For twenty of the twenty-three seats the BJP won in the 2019 Maharashtra elections, candidates have been announced by the party. Piyush Goyal, Raosaheb Danve, and Nitin Gadkari, all union ministers, are among the names who were revealed on Wednesday. Five MPs had their tickets canceled, and 14 of the 20 names that were announced were repeated. In place of her sister Pritam Munde, Pankaja Munde was sent from the Beed family stronghold.
Of the seven current MPs in Gujarat, just three were re-elected. Notable exclusions included Darshana Jardosh in Surat, which fielded Mukesh Bhai Chandrakant Dalal.
Haryana
Likewise, of the six announced candidates in Haryana, three incumbent Members of Parliament were re-elected. The late leader of the BJP and former Member of Parliament Rattan Lal Kataria’s wife, Banto Kataria, was fielded.
In Telangana
Most of the Telangana candidates who received Lok Sabha tickets from the BJP are former members of the Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
Ten of the fifteen MP candidates that have been finalized thus far are former members of other parties who left during the last four to five years. Under condition of anonymity, a BJP leader stated, “The true and faithful leaders have been disregarded.
State of Madhya Pradesh
Two MPs from the five Madhya Pradesh candidates listed in the second list have been added again, and two others have been removed, according to NDTV. Ten sitting Members of Parliament, including Pragya Thakur of Bhopal, were removed from the first list.
karnataka
Out of the 20 announced candidates, 11 MPs in Karnataka were replaced. In a noteworthy shift, Pratap Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar of the Mysuru Royal family has taken Simha’s seat in the Mysuru constituency. Shobha Karandlaje, a Vokkaliga leader, has been transferred to the Bengaluru North constituency. Former BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel has also been removed from the list, and Dakshina Kannada candidate Captain Brijesh Chowta is now running.
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