Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress CEC finalizes candidates for remaining seats, here’s what to expect
Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress CEC is expected to meet today to finalize the candidates for the remaining seats. Congress Prez Kharge and Rahul Gandhi are expected to be part of it…
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha elections 2024 are just around the corner and every political party has been preparing for these elections for many months. For the General elections, the date of which will be announced soon, political parties have started announcing their candidates from different seats. Recently, Congress released a list of candidates and the constituencies from which they would run. In a latest development, the Central Electoral Committee (CEC) of the Congress The party is expected to meet today and decide on the candidates for the remaining seats. Here’s what to expect from this conference CEC meeting…
Lok Sabha elections: Second meeting of Congress CEC today
As mentioned earlier, the second meeting of the Congress party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) will be held at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in Delhi on Monday evening, party sources said. According to party sources, the meeting has been called at 6 pm and will be chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge. Congress Parliamentary Party president Sonia Gandhi and party member Rahul Gandhi are also expected to attend the meeting.
Discussions on these Lok Sabha seats
According to a report by news agency ANI, the sources said that discussions will take place on the Lok Sabha seats of Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh. Earlier, the Congress released its first list of candidates for 39 Lok Sabha constituencies on March 8. The names have been announced for Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshwadeep, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Telangana and Tripura.
Of the total 39 announced candidates, 16 are from Kerala, seven from Karnataka, six from Chhattisgarh and four from Telangana. Two from Meghalaya and one each from Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim and Lakshwadeep. The list of 39 candidates was released after the first meeting of the Central Election Committee, which was held on March 7. Addressing the press conference, KC Venugopal said, “Out of these 39 candidates, 15 are from General category and 24 are from SC, ST. , OBC and minorities.”
A list of 195 candidates has also been released by the current ruling party, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP); this is the party’s first list. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections are likely to take place in April-May this year. Another important development in the run-up to the elections is the resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel; now two of the three Election Commission positions are vacant.
(Input from ANI)