Final Up to date: March 28, 2024, 08:17 IST
Lok Sabha Polls 2024 LIVE Updates: The political mercury within the nation is repeatedly rising with the upcoming Lok Sabha Election 2024 set to be held in seven phases between April 19 and June 1. With over 90 crore eligible residents voting for 543 seats of the Decrease Home, the ballot outcomes will probably be declared on June 4. Along with the overall elections to the 18th Lok Sabha, the Election Fee of India (ECI) additionally introduced elections in 4 states – Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim.
Whereas the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) on Wednesday launched its seventh listing naming candidates for 403 seats up to now, the Congress celebration additionally launched its eight listing of candidates.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE Updates | High Highlights
- Congress Drops Chief Over Remarks On Kangana Ranaut: The Congress celebration dropped Supriya Shrinate as a candidate for the Lok Sabha polls amid row over her remarks on actor Kangana Ranaut.
- MP Ganeshamoorthy Passes Away: Erode sitting MP Ganeshamoorthy handed away on Thursday morning. Ganeshamoorthy was admitted in Coimbatore Hospital on Sunday after he tried suicide. He was from MDMK celebration and was denied a celebration ticket to contest the upcoming polls.
- Nirmala Sitharaman on Why She is Not Contesting LS Polls: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday stated the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) supplied her ticket to battle the Lok Sabha election 2024, nevertheless, she declined the proposal citing a scarcity of funds required for preventing polls. The minister stated that the BJP chief JP Nadda gave her the choice to contest both from Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu.
- Congress’ Pratibha Singh’s Candidacy: Himachal Pradesh Congress chief Pratibha Singh has left the choice on contesting the Lok Sabha polls to the celebration excessive command, the grand previous celebration’s in-charge for the hill state Rajeev Shukla, stated on Wednesday. Singh, the member of Parliament from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, had lately stated she had determined to not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls because the scenario on the bottom was “not beneficial” and the celebration staff had been disheartened.
- Blow to MVA: In a serious blow to Maha-Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) chief Prakash Ambedkar on Wednesday introduced to subject eight candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election in Maharashtra. The transfer signifies that the VBA is now not in alliance with the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
BJP Appoints In-charges, Co-incharges for States and UTs
The BJP on Wednesday appointed its Lok Sabha ballot in-charges and co-incharges for a number of states and union territories, drafting in fairly a number of leaders who didn’t get tickets to battle the elections. Bihar MLA Nitin Nabin will probably be in-charge for Chhattisgarh and Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Sharma for Maharashtra, the celebration assertion stated.
Bihar MLA Sanjeev Chaurasia, Ramesh Bidhuri and Sanjay Bhatia had been named as co-incharges for Uttar Pradesh. Each Bidhuri and Bhatia are MPs within the outgoing Lok Sabha however weren’t renominated by the celebration for the polls. BJP vice chairman Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda is the ballot in-charge for Uttar Pradesh however is more likely to be busy in campaigning after he was named the celebration’s candidate for Kendrapara constituency in Odisha.
Haryana leaders O P Dhankar and Captain Abhimanyu have been made in-charges for Delhi and Assam respectively. Former Karnataka BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel, who was not renominated for the Lok Sabha polls contest, will probably be co-incharge for Kerala. Former Union minister Prakash Javadekar was appointed in-charge for the state earlier.
BJP vice chairman M Chuba Ao, MP Ajit Gopchade, Bihar MLC Devesh Kumar, spokesperson Nalin Kohli, Karnataka MLA Abhay Patil and Avinash Rai Khanna have been made in-charges for Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Telangana and Tripura respectively.
