In 2 Lok Sabha Lists, BJP Has Already Dropped 21% Of Its Whole Sitting MPs

In Delhi, the get together has changed six of its sitting MPs and just one has been repeated.

New Delhi:

Within the two lists that the BJP has launched to this point, the get together has named 267 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, and practically 21% of sitting MPs have already not been repeated from their respective constituencies. The technique, sources stated, has been designed holding attainable anti-incumbency in thoughts, and the choices have been primarily based on the suggestions the get together has acquired from the bottom.

The selection of candidates can be necessary given the get together’s goal of successful 370 seats by itself within the Lok Sabha polls, due in just some weeks from now, which is able to entail getting 67 extra constituencies than it did in 2019. 

Whereas the primary listing, launched on March 2, noticed solely 33 MPs – together with Pragya Thakur. Ramesh Bidhuri and Parvesh Verma – being changed regardless of 195 candidates being named, 30 MPs have been proven the door in Wednesday’s listing of 72 names. 

Of the 267 names within the two lists, the variety of sitting MPs repeated is excessive, at 140, and 67 MPs haven’t been given tickets. Two of those MPs, together with Gautam Gambhir – who has been changed in East Delhi by Harsh Malhotra – had determined to not contest. 

Numbers Sport

Within the second listing, 20 names every have been declared from Maharashtra and Karnataka, seven from Gujarat, six every from Telangana and Haryana, 5 from Madhya Pradesh, two every from Delhi, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and one every from Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 

In Delhi, the BJP has changed six of its sitting MPs and just one, Manoj Tiwari, has been repeated. 

Of the 20 candidates declared for Karnataka within the second listing, 11 MPs have been changed whereas solely eight have been repeated.

The story in Maharashtra is the alternative, with 14 MPs being repeated and the tickets of solely 5 getting cancelled. The MPs being repeated embody Union Minister Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, whereas Pritam Munde has been changed by her sister, Pankaja Munde, in Beed. 

For Gujarat, within the second listing, solely three out of seven sitting MPs have been repeated. The omissions embody Union Minister Darshana Jardosh, who has been changed by Mukesh Dalal. 

Of the six candidates declared in Haryana within the second listing, three sitting MPs have been repeated and two have been changed. A brand new candidate has been named for a seat the place the sitting MP died. 

Telangana, the place the BJP had gained solely 4 seats final time, has seen one MP being repeated and one ticket being cancelled. 

Of the 5 Madhya Pradesh candidates declared within the second listing, two MPs have been repeated and two omitted. A brand new candidate, Vivek Sahu, will probably be fielded in opposition to Nakul Nath within the Chhindwara constituency, which was the one seat the BJP had misplaced within the state in 2019. 

Each MPs named for Himachal within the second listing are getting a ticket once more – together with Union Minister Anurag Thakur from Hamirpur – whereas each from Uttarakhand have been changed. 

Tripura has seen an MP being changed whereas the Dadra And Nagar Haveli MP, who was with the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena, will now contest on a BJP ticket.