BJP Names 5 Candidates For Delhi; Sushma Swaraj's Daughter Bansuri To Contest From New Delhi Seat

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by Pabitra Mohan Senapaty

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of five candidates for the seven parliamentary seats of the national capital for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, fielding former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's daughter Bansuri from New Delhi.

New Delhi, Mar 2: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of five candidates for the seven parliamentary seats of the national capital for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, fielding former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's daughter Bansuri from New Delhi.

The party has changed its candidates for most of the seats in the national capital.
Currently, the BJP holds all seven Delhi Lok Sabha seats.

The party has fielded Bhojpuri superstar and current party MP Manoj Tiwari from North-East Delhi, Kamaljeet Sehrawat from West Delhi, Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from South Delhi and Praveen Khandelwal from Chandni Chowk.

Of the five named candidates, only Manoj Tiwari has managed to get a renomination.

Tiwari is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been a Member of Parliament (MP) from the North East Delhi constituency since 2014. In 2014, Tiwari joined the BJP and contested the Lok Sabha elections from the North East Delhi constituency. He won the election by a margin of over 3 lakh votes. He was re-elected in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The party is yet to announce candidates for the North Delhi and East Delhi seats.
Bansuri Swaraj, while speaking to ANI, expressed her gratitude to the BJP's top brass, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"I feel grateful. I express gratitude towards PM Modi, HM Amit Shah ji, JP Nadda ji and every BJP worker for giving me this opportunity. With the resolution of 'ab ki baar 400 paar', every BJP worker will work to make Narendra Modi the 'PradhanSewak' for the third time," Bansuri said.

Delhi has seven Lok Sabha seats, all of which are currently held by the BJP.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress, which will fight in alliance, are the two other key political parties in Delhi in the fray.

The AAP and the Congress have announced that they will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election together for all seven seats.

As part of the agreement reached between the ruling party in Delhi and the grand old party, Congress will contest 3 of the 7 Lok Sabha seats in the national capital, while the AAP will field candidates in the remaining 4 constituencies.

The Congress will contest the Chandni Chowk, North East and North West seats in the Lok Sabha elections, while the AAP will contest New Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi and East Delhi.

The BJP on Saturday unveiled its first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, encompassing 16 States and 2 Union Territories, with a total of 195 nominees.

The first list of candidates include 34 ministers from both the Union and state levels, along with the name of the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. The announced names included those for 51 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 20 in West Bengal and five in Delhi. 28 women, and 47 young leaders in BJP's first list of Lok Sabha candidates for 16 States and Union Territories.

Union ministers whose names have been announced by the BJP in the first list of candidates include Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Bhupender Yadav, Mansukh Mandaviya, Sarbananda Sonowal, Kiren Rijiju, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Arjun Ram Meghwal, G Kishan Reddy, Arjun Munda and Smriti Irani.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight from Varanasi, Home Minister Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar, Sarbananda Sonowal from Dibrugarh. (ANI)

"BJP's CM Will Take Oath On June 10": Aparajita Sarangi On Odisha Assembly Polls

by Hemanta Pande

Bhubaneswar, May 18: Exuding confidence in the BJP winning the Assembly elections in Odisha, party's Lok Sabha candidate from Bhubaneswar, Aparajita Sarangi said on Saturday that a BJP Chief Minister will take oath on June 10.

Aparajita along with state BJP president Manmohan Samal, BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda, Sambalpur LS candidate Dharmendra Pradhan and Balasore MP candidate Pratap Sarangi were part of the roadshow in Balasore on Saturday.

"Central BJP's order was that five of us should go together and talk to our workers and listen to their problems and prepare for victory. We are all very excited. Workers are very excited. Ever since PM Modi said in Balangir that the people of Odisha should give us 5 years so that we can show what development is. PM told us that we will make Odisha the number 1 state in the country. BJP's CM will certainly take the oath on 10th June," Sarangi Said.

The assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Odisha are being held across four phases--from May 13 to June 1.
Polling for the first phase was conducted in 28 Assembly seats and four Lok Sabha constituencies on May 13. In the fifth phase, 35 Assembly seats and five Lok Sabha constituencies will vote on May 20, 42 Assembly segments and six Lok Sabha seats on May 25, and the remaining 42 Assembly seats and six Lok Sabha constituencies in the last phase on June 1.

The counting of votes will be held on June 4.

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Campaigning Ends For 5 Lok Sabha Seats, 35 Assembly Segments For May 20 Polls In Odisha

by Hemanta Pande

Bhubaneswar, May 18: The high-voltage campaigning ended on Saturday for five Lok Sabha seats and 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha, which will go to polls on May 20.

Among the prominent candidates in the second round of simultaneous elections in the state are BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, and his colleagues in the state government Bikram Arukha, Niranjan Pujari, PK Amat, Tukuni Sahu, and Rita Sahu.

Former Union Minister and Sundergarh's sitting MP Jual Oram, former Union Minister and hotelier Dilip Ray, four-time Lok Sabha MP Sangeeta Singh Deo are among the prominent candidates from the BJPin this round of elections.

A total of 40 candidates are contesting from Aska, Kandhamal, Balangir, Bargarh and Sundergarh Lok Sabha seats, while 265 are in the fray for 35 assembly constituencies.

Altogether 79.62 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise on May 20.

The voting will begin at 7 AM and end at 6 PM.

The state, during this round of electioneering, witnessed heavyweights of the ruling BJD, and the opposition BJP and Congress canvassing for their respective candidates.

Prominent leaders, who campaigned during this round of elections, included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sachin Pilot.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Dev Sai, Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal, Tripura’s ex-CM Biplab Kumar Deb, Bollywood's 'dream girl' and Mathura MP Hema Malini also hit the campaign trail for BJP candidates.

The election campaigning in this phase of polls witnessed violence in which a BJP worker was killed in Khallikote assembly segment of Ganjam district, the home district of the Chief Minister.

Polling for the first phase was conducted in 28 Assembly seats and four Lok Sabha constituencies on May 13. In the fifth phase, 35 Assembly seats and five Lok Sabha constituencies will vote on May 20, 42 Assembly segments and six Lok Sabha seats on May 25 and the remaining 42 Assembly seats and six Lok Sabha constituencies in the last phase on June 1.

The results will be out on June 4.

BJP Names 5 Candidates For Delhi; Sushma Swaraj's Daughter Bansuri To Contest From New Delhi Seat

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