Rama Krishna Sangem
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest for third time from his Varanasi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. He figured top on the first list of 195 candidates, the BJP released for the coming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The list was released to media by BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde at the party headquarters on March 2, Saturday at 6.30 pm. The list was finalized two days before on February 29, at a meeting held at the PM’s residence in New Delhi.
Other heavy weights Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Rajnath Singh from Lucknow in UP, Srmiti Irani from Amethi in UP, Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur and Shivraj SIngh Chauhan from Vidisha in MP. In all thre are 57 OBC candidates in the list. In all 34 union ministers are figured in the first list of BJP.
Kishan, Etela from Telangana
BJP state president and union minister G Kishan Reddy will contest again from Secunderabad, while other two sitting MPs Dharmapuri Aravind (Nizamabad) and Bandi Sanjay (Karimnagar) will fight from their seats. Former minister Etela Rajender got Malkajgiri seat and former MP Konda Visveshwar Reddy got Chevella, Dr Boora Narasiah Goud is fielded from Bhongir.
Sitting MP BB Patil who left BRS two days ago and joined BJP got back his Zaheerabad seat while Bharat Prasad who along with his father Nagar Kurnool (SC) BRS MP P Ramulu joined BJP three days back got the same seat of his father. Hyderabad seat has been given to Madhavi Latha, a recent entry into BJP. Here she will take on formidable AMIMI’s Asadudin Owaisi.
Now, 8 more LS seats from Telangana are to be decided. They are: Adilabad (ST), Warangal (SC), Mahabubabad (ST), Nalgonda, Khammam, Mahabubnagar, Medak and Peddapalli (SC).
