BJP Central Election Committee meeting today
The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will meet here on Monday to finalize the second list of candidates in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Sources gave this information. According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President JP Nadda and other members of the Central Election Committee will be present in the meeting. In the last few days, Nadda and Shah have held various meetings with the election committees of different states and senior leaders there and discussed the names of the candidates.
BJP declared candidates for 195 seats
Earlier, the BJP’s Central Election Committee meeting was held on March 1 and the next day the party released the first list of 195 candidates for 16 states and two union territories. The names of Prime Minister Modi (Varanasi), Shah (Gandhinagar) and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh (Lucknow) were also included in this list. The names of 34 Union ministers were included in this list while the tickets of three ministers were cancelled. The party’s first list includes 28 women and 47 youth, while 27 candidates are from Scheduled Caste, 18 from Scheduled Tribe and 57 from Other Backward Class.
How many candidates declared from which state?
The list includes 51 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 20 in West Bengal, 24 in Madhya Pradesh, 15-15 seats in Gujarat and Rajasthan, 12-12 seats in Kerala and Telangana, 11-11 seats in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Assam and five in Delhi. Candidates were announced in some other states and union territories including the seat. Let us tell you that a meeting of the Central Election Committee of Congress is also to be held today. For this, Rahul Gandhi has left for Delhi from Gujarat. It is expected that after this meeting the second list of names of the candidates will be released.
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