Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will head the BJP’s manifesto committee for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, scheduled to happen in a couple of weeks. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman would be the convenor of the committee whereas Union Minister Piyush Goyal will probably be co-convenor. Other than these, 24 individuals will probably be included as members of this committee.
Arjun Munda, Bhupendra Yadav, Arjunram Meghwal, Kiren Rijiju, Ashwini Vaishnav, Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupendra Patel, Himanta Vishwasarma, Vishnudev Sai, Mohan Yadav, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Vasundhara Raje, Smriti Irani, Jual Oram, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Sushil Modi, Keshav Prasad Maurya, Rajiv Chandrashekhar, Vinod Tawde, Radhamohan Das Agarwal, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, OP Dhankhar, Anil Antony, Tariq Mansoor are the members of this committee.
BJP proclaims election in-charges, co-incharges for states, UTs
Earlier on March 28, BJP appointed the election-in-charge and co-in-charge for a number of states and Union Territories. Captain Abhimanyu has been appointed in cost for Assam, Nitin Nabin- Chhattisgarh, OP Dhankhad- Delhi, Dinesh Sharma- Maharashtra, M Chuba Ao- Meghalaya, Ajeet Ghopchade- Manipur, Devesh Kumar- Mizoram, Nalin Kohli- Nagaland, Abhay Patil- Telangana and Avinash Rai Khanna for Tripura.
The occasion appointed Rajya Sabha MP and former Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma because the election in-charge for Maharashtra whereas former Haryana BJP chief OP Dhankar has been appointed for Delhi.
Lok Sabha elections 2024
The seven-phase Lok Sabha polls, the world’s largest election train, will kick off on April 19 with the counting of votes set to happen on June 4 as Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a bid for a 3rd consecutive time period in workplace.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar mentioned over 97 crore voters – 49.7 crore males and 47.1 crore females – have been eligible to forged their vote within the polling course of unfold over 44 days and throughout 10.5 lakh polling cubicles. The elections will start on April 19 adopted by subsequent phases on April 26, Might 7, Might 13, Might 20, Might 25 and June 1.
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