Bharatiya Janata Party has sounded the trumpet for Lok Sabha elections 2024. The party released its first list of candidates on Saturday. Party’s national general secretary Vinod Tawde said that candidates for 195 seats in 16 states and two union territories have been decided. Churning is going on for the remaining seats. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest elections from Varanasi. Names of 34 Union and State Ministers are also in this list.
What is special in BJP’s first list?
- 195 names announced
- Names of 34 central and state ministers in the list
- 28 women get a chance
- 47 young candidates, whose age is less than 50 years
- 27 names from scheduled caste
- 18 candidates from scheduled category
- 57 names from other backward classes
Candidates announced for how many seats from which state? Know Here
Vinod Tawde told that 51 from Uttar Pradesh, 26 from West Bengal, 24 from Madhya Pradesh, 15 from Gujarat, 15 from Rajasthan, 12 from Kerala, nine from Telangana, 11 from Assam, 11 from Jharkhand, 11 from Chhattisgarh, 11 from Delhi, Candidates have been decided for five seats in Jammu and Kashmir, three in Uttarakhand and one seat each in Arunachal, Goa, Tripura, Andaman-Nicobar and Daman and Diu.
Tickets from whom and where
- Jitendra Singh from Udhampur
- Nishikant Dubey from Godda
- Arjun Munda shaved with peg
- Koderma to Annapurna Devi
- Praveen Khandelwal from Chandni Chowk
- Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi
- Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna
- Sagar to Lata Wankhede
- Tikamgarh to Virendra Khati
- Rahul Lodhi from Damoh
- VD Sharma from Khajuraho
- Satna to Ganesh Singh
- Rewa to Janardan Mishra
- Sidhi to Rajesh Mishra
- Himadri Singh from Shahdol
- Ashish Dubey from Jabalpur
- Mandla to Faggan Singh Kulaste
- Hoshangabad Darshan Singh
- Vidisha to Shivraj
- Dewas to Mahendra Singh Solanki
- Sudhir Gupta from Mandsaur
- Ratlam to Gajendra Patel
An important meeting was held on 29 February
Earlier on Thursday, the party had brainstormed till late night. Many names were finalized in the Central Election Committee by other members including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Party President JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh.
Since the meeting, there were speculations that the party could declare candidates for 100 to 125 seats for the Lok Sabha elections. The seats lost by the party in the 2014-2019 Lok Sabha elections were also discussed in the meeting. The party is also preparing to field the maximum number of women candidates in the Lok Sabha elections. In the 2019 elections, 53 women had contested the Lok Sabha elections on BJP tickets. According to 33 percent, this time 70 women can get tickets.
Know Here BJP performance in 2019 Lok Sabha elections
In the last Lok Sabha elections i.e. 2019, BJP had fielded candidates on 436 out of 543 seats. The party had given the remaining seats to its allies. Of the 436 seats on which BJP contested, the party won 303. This figure was more than the majority figure of 272 in the Lok Sabha. Apart from this, BJP was second on 72 seats, third on 31 seats and even lower on 30 seats, while the deposits of the party’s candidates were also confiscated on 51 seats.
How was the performance of which alliance in 2019?
In the last Lok Sabha elections, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had won 351 seats, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) had won 90 seats and the SP-BSP alliance had won 15 seats.
BJP alone got majority
In 2019, BJP became the largest party with 303 seats and alone crossed the magic majority mark (272). After this, Congress was at second position with 52 seats. DMK got 24 seats, Trinamool Congress 22 and YSRCP 22 seats.
