Lok Sabha elections 2024: The BJP announced its list of 13 candidates from Uttar Pradesh for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, featuring notable personalities like Arun Govil, known for portraying Lord Ram in the Ramayan TV serial, who will contest from Meerut.
In a significant move, the party replaced Varun Gandhi with UP PWD minister Jitin Prasada in Pilibhit. Varun Gandhi, who has recently raised concerns about various issues within the BJP, including employment and health, was not included in the list. However, his mother, Maneka Gandhi, has been retained and will run from the Sultanpur parliamentary constituency.
Atul Garg has been nominated from Ghaziabad, taking over from sitting MP and Union Minister V K Singh, who announced his decision not to contest the Lok Sabha elections shortly before the list was released. Ramesh Awasthi will contest from Kanpur Lok Sabha seat, following sitting MP Satyadev Pachauri’s expressed reluctance to contest, conveyed to the party’s national president J P Nadda.
This marks the second list of candidates from UP released by the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections. The party is yet to declare its candidate for the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat.
In Budaun, the party chose Durvijay Singh Shakya over its current MP Sanghamitra Maurya. Santosh Gangwar has been replaced by Chattrapal Singh Gangwar in Bareilly, while Raghav Lakhanpal, Sarvesh Singh, and Satish Gautam have been announced as nominees from Saharanpur, Moradabad, and Aligarh seats respectively.
On the reserved seats of Barabanki and Bahraich, the BJP has named Rajrani Rawat and Arvind Gond respectively. In its first list, the BJP had named its sitting MP Upendra Rawat from Barabanki, who later declined to contest the election following the surfacing of an obscene video allegedly involving him on social media.
In the 2019 general election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) achieved a notable feat by securing 37.36 percent of the total votes, marking the highest vote share attained by any political party in India since the 1989 election. The BJP’s individual victory stood at 303 seats, contributing to a cumulative tally of 353 seats for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). In contrast, the Indian National Congress, led by Rahul Gandhi, clinched 52 seats, while the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) under its leadership secured a total of 98 seats.
The 2019 Lok Sabha elections unfolded in seven phases, spanning from April 11 to May 19, with results announced on May 23. Ahead of the upcoming polls, campaigning has already commenced, with the BJP setting its sights on securing over 400 seats out of the total 543 in the Lok Sabha.
As per the extensive News18 Opinion Poll conducted recently, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is poised to reclaim power in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections of 2024 with a significant majority. The survey anticipates the BJP-led NDA to clinch 411 Lok Sabha seats, surpassing the 400-seat target envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the slogan, “Abki baar 400 paar.” The last instance of a party securing more than 400 seats occurred in 1984 when the Congress Party secured 411 seats out of 542 at stake. The projected NDA vote share is expected to reach 48% in the impending General Elections.
Contrastingly, the Congress-led I.N.D.I.A. alliance is forecasted to secure 105 seats, marking an improvement from the 91 seats it garnered in its previous iteration as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in 2019. Other smaller parties are anticipated to secure 27 seats, as indicated by the opinion poll findings.
Within the alliance framework, the BJP is anticipated to enhance its seat count to 350, while other NDA partners are expected to contribute 61 seats, according to the poll. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP secured 303 seats, contributing to the NDA’s cumulative tally of 353.
The Election Commission has disclosed that approximately 97 crore Indians will be eligible to cast their votes in this year’s Lok Sabha elections, reflecting a 6 percent increase in registered voters since 2019. The electoral rolls underwent nationwide publication in early February following an intensive Special Summary Revision 2024 process.
Ongoing efforts are underway to evaluate the feasibility of conducting simultaneous elections across India. Several states, including Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh, are gearing up to conduct concurrent Lok Sabha and assembly polls. The terms of the Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim Assemblies are slated to expire on June 11, June 2, June 24, and June 2 respectively.
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