The BJP on Friday announced 14 candidates for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha elections and the sole seat in Puducherry.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: The BJP The fourth list of candidates for the upcoming edition was released on Friday Lok Sabha pollsin which candidates for 14 seats are announced Tamilnadu and the sole seat of Pondicherry. According to the list, the saffron party has fielded Puducherry Minister A Namassivayam on the only Lok Sabha seat in the union territory.

Here is the complete list of candidates announced by the BJP:

Lok Sabha elections 2024: BJP candidates for Tamil Nadu

• Pon V Balaganapathy – Tiruvallur
• RC Paul Kanagaraj-Chennai (North)
• An Ashwathaman-Tiruvannamalai
• KP Ramalingam-Namakkal
• AP Muruganandam-Tiruppur
• K Vasantharajan-Polachi
• VV Senthilnathan-Kaur
• P Karthiyayini-Chidambaram (SC)
• SGM Ramesh-Nagapattinam
• M Muruganandam-Thanjavur
• Devanathan Yadav-Sivaganga
• Raama Sreenivasan – Madurai
• Raadhika Sarathkumar-Virudhunagar
• B John Pandian-Tenkasi (SC)

Lok Sabha elections 2024: BJP candidate for Puducherry

• A Namassivayam-Puducherry

On Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its third list of nine candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.

In its third list, the saffron party has allotted 10 seats to the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), while also leaving some seats for smaller partners.

The BJP has fielded Tamil Nadu unit chief K Annamalai from Coimbatore, while Union Minister L. Murugan will contest the polls from Nilgiris, the list said.

The ruling party also appointed former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South and ex-union minister Pon Radhakrishnan from Kanniyakumari, whom he represented in 2014.

PMK-BJP alliance

Earlier this week, the BJP signed a seat-sharing agreement with the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) in Tamil Nadu for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. BJP’s state unit chief K Annamalai and founder of PMK Dr. S. Ramadoss made the pact official at the latter Thailapuram at home Villupuram.

According to the agreement that the parties have agreed upon, the PMK will contest for ten seats in the state, the two parties had said in a statement.

“PMK will fight from 10 seats Tamilnadu in the confidentiality,” Annamalai told reporters at a joint press conference with PMK president and Rajya Sabha MP Dr Anbumani Ramadoss.

The two leaders emphasized that the PMK has been in the NDA for the past decade and fought the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls as part of the BJP-led bloc.

(With PTI inputs)

In the previous Lok Sabha polls, the TMC won 22 seats, while the BJP pulled off a major surprise and won 18 seats.

New Delhi: The Congress party held a meeting of its Central Election Commission on Tuesday. The Congress has finalized the names of candidates for 12 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, news agency ANI quoted sources as saying. “Discussions took place for Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and West Bengal by the screening committee,” Congress leader Jaivardhan Singh said.

Congress has already announced candidates for 82 Lok Sabha seats. In the first list, the party listed the names of 39 candidates, while in the second list, the names of 43 candidates were announced.

Voting will take place in all seven phases for the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal.

The Trinamool Congress has already announced its candidates for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. In the previous Lok Sabha polls, the TMC won 22 seats, while the BJP pulled off a major surprise and won 18 seats.

Earlier today, the Congress working committee held a detailed discussion on the manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, which puts a heavy push on the party’s ‘nyay’ agenda and allows party chief Mallikarjun Kharge to give it a final approval.

Addressing a press conference after the CWC meeting, Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh said the party will build on the momentum of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, in which the party announced five guarantees and a plan has been drawn up to take the message of guarantees at the grassroots level.

“The meeting we had today was not just for our manifesto but for our ‘nyay patra’. The Congress is absolutely ready for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Today’s meeting included discussions about our agenda. In the last 63 days, Rahul Gandhi has spoken about our five Nyay and announced 25 guarantees. This is not just a simple manifesto but an important ‘nyay patra’ so that the people of our country can see a better future,” he said.

The meeting of the CWC, the party’s highest decision-making body, took place days after the announcement of the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections. The Lok Sabha polls and assembly elections in four states will be held from April 19 to June 1 and the results will be declared on June 4.

It’s the movie role that can transform unknown actors into global megastars – and now the British have had their say on who they want to be the next James Bond.

Thousands of Bond fans have cast their votes on who they want to replace Daniel Craig in the spy film franchise.

And topping the list is Luther star Idris Elba, who was the overwhelming favorite to perform after a survey of 2,000 Britons.

In the poll, commissioned by Lottoland, the 51-year-old beat the likes of Venom star Tom Hardy, Superman’s Henry Cavill and Oscar-winning man with the golden gong, Cillian Murphy, for the prized role.

Among the other top 20 A-listers who suggested they might be in the running were some left-wing stars such as House of the Dragons’ Emilia Clarke, James Norton, Emily Blunt and Helen Mirren. The sun revealed.

Bond is known for turning those who play 007 into global superstars.

And the franchise isn’t shy about casting stars out of left field to take on the role. The late Sean Connery, one of the most recognizable Bonds, had only appeared in a series of TV films when he accepted the role of a British spy in 1962’s Dr. No, with which he achieved international fame.

But while Idris was the first choice, fans may be left disappointed after the actor ruled himself out of playing the role last year so he could focus on his deal with Netflix, where he is starring in Luther: The Fallen Sun.

Idris brought up the ongoing discussions about the takeover of Ian Fleming’s famous British spy in February 2023.

When asked about the Luther film at the World Government Summit in Dubai, he said: “It’s very dark.

‘We’ve been working on the television show for about ten years and so the natural ambition is to bring it to the big screen, and so here we are with the first film.

“You know, a lot of people talk about another character that starts with J and ends with B, but I’m not going to be that guy.

‘I will be John Luther. That’s who I am.’

In August 2022, it was reported that Idris had left ‘years of talks’ with film bosses to take over the famous role.

He was the bookies’ favorite to replace Daniel Craig as super spy, but is keen to pursue other roles – and has even submitted a proposed list to producer Barbara Broccoli of actors who would play 007.

A source said The sun: ‘Fans and Barbara wanted Idris, but he wants to create something for himself.

“However, he has put forward names to play 007. He is ‘informally’ involved in the decision-making process, because he has been in discussions with producers for so long.’

MailOnline contacted representatives of Idris and James Bond producers at the time.

At the premiere of his film The Harder They Fall in 2021, when asked if he is considered the next 007, Idris said: ‘No, I’m not going to be James Bond.’

He told it too The Express about the rumors: “I’m probably the most famous Bond actor in the world, and I didn’t even play the part.”

Idris then added: “Enough is enough. I can’t talk about it anymore.’

Despite this, Ladbrokes awarded the actor a 3/1 for taking on the role after Daniel announced that 2021’s No Time To Die would be his final appearance as the character.

The bookmakers said at the time: ‘We have seen a huge interest in Idris Elba and have reduced his odds accordingly, so much so that he is now the clear favorite in our view to replace Daniel Craig as 007.’

Tom Hardy at 5/1, Rege-Jean Page 4/1 and Richard Madden 20/1 were also rumored to be in the running.

James Bond producer Barbara previously admitted that it will take a long time to choose Craig’s 007 replacement.

The filmmaker emphasized that it’s not as simple as choosing an actor to take on the iconic role of the friendly spy.

Speaking to Variety, Barbara said: ‘It’s a big decision.

‘It’s not just playing a role. It’s about a whole rethink of where we’re going.”

Earlier that same year, the blockbuster franchise’s producer confirmed that Idris was “part of the conversation” to become the next 007.

She told Deadline’s Crew Call podcast, “Well, we know Idris, we’re friends with him, and he’s a great actor.”

“And you know, it’s been part of the conversation, but it’s always hard to have a conversation when there’s someone in the seat.”

Barbara added that Bond bosses are in no rush to name the actor as they wanted the cast and crew to enjoy Craig’s latest film No Time To Die.

She said: ‘I think we’ve decided that until No Time To Die has had its run and Daniel has been able to – well, we’ve all been able to enjoy and reap the benefits of Daniel’s wonderful tenure, we’re not going to doing. think of or talk about someone else.’

The producer also hinted at a reimagining of the franchise. explaining: ‘It’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re trying to figure out where to go with him, we’ll talk about that.”

However, she added that any casting announcements are still a ways off, saying, “We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time,” she continued. “There is no script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how to approach the next film.

“I’d say filming will take at least another two years.”

The BJP’s list of candidates for Gujarat includes two women nominees who are from the key Lok Sabha constituencies of Bhavnagar and Vadodara.

BJP candidate list: The BJP on Wednesday announced its second list of 72 candidates for the upcoming elections Lok Sabha elections 2024. In its second list, the ruling party has announced the names of candidates for seven Lok Sabha seats Gujarat.

Here is the BJP’s list of seven candidates for Gujarat:

• Bhikhaji Dudhaji Thakor – Sabarkantha
• Hashmukhbhai Patel – Ahmedabad East
• Nimuben Bambhania-Bhavnagar
• Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt – Vadodara
• Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa – Chhota Udaipur
• Mukeshbhai Dalal-Sura
• Dhawal Patel-Valsad

The BJP’s list of candidates for Gujarat includes two women nominees who are from the key Lok Sabha constituencies of Bhavnagar and Vadodara.

The saffron party has fielded Hashmukhbhai Somabhai Patel from Ahmedabad East, Dhawal Patel from Valsad, Mukeshbhai Chandrakant Dalal from Surat, Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt from Vadodara, Nimuben Bambhania from Bhavnagar, Bhikhaji Dudhaji Thakor from Sabarkantha and Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa from Chhota Udaipur.

BJP 2nd list of candidates

The BJP on Wednesday released its second list of candidates for the upcoming general elections, naming Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai in the list of 72 candidates. .

According to the list, BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand, while the saffron party in Delhi has fielded two new candidates – Harsh Malhotra from east Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from north-west Delhi.

In Karnataka, Union minister Pralhad Joshi will contest from Dharwad, while former chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s son BY Raghavendra will contest from Shivamogga.

Tejasvi Surya, the head of the BJP’s youth wing, will seek re-election from south Bengaluru.

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile royal family of Mysore replaces Pratap Simha as the BJP candidate in the Mysore seat.

Earlier this month, the BJP had announced its first list of 195 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, while the opposition Congress has so far announced names for 82 Lok Sabha seats.

The BJP-led National Democratic (NDA) won a total of 303 seats, leaving the old party on 52 seats.

The Lok Sabha elections will be held in April and May this year.

(With input from agencies)

The BJP earlier released an initial list of 195 candidates on March 2, who will contest the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections and is likely to finalize candidates for the remaining seats.

New Delhi: The BJP’s Central Election Committee will meet at its headquarters in the national capital on Monday in a bid to stay ahead of its competitors before the impending Lok Sabha elections. According to ANI reports, the candidates for a few more Lok Sabha seats were likely to be decided during the meeting. The BJP’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners from Maharashtra, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana and Bihar will also be present at the meeting. The report further stated that the allies are expected to discuss seat sharing with the party’s senior leadership.

Newly joined defectors in BJP

In the presence of party general secretary Tarun Chugh, four Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders and a Congress member joined the BJP in New Delhi earlier on Sunday. Former MPs Godam Nagesh and Sitaram Naik, along with former MLAs Saidhi Reddy and Jalagam Venkat Rao, were the four BRS defectors.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is running for a third consecutive term in the House of Representatives from Varanasi, topped the BJP’s initial list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, which were announced on March 2.

Prominent BJP candidates contesting LS polls

34 ministers from the Center and States make up the list of the 195 contenders, and two of them are former chief ministers. The National Democratic Party (NDA), led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won 303 seats in 2019, while the oldest party won only 52 seats. The Lok Sabha elections are expected to take place in April or May this year.

BJP’s strategic plan towards victory

As the political landscape continues to evolve, the BJP’s Central Election Commission remains steadfast in its commitment to ensure robust and inclusive representation across all constituencies. With a keen eye on optimizing its election strategy, the party wants to field candidates who embody its principles and resonate with the aspirations of the electorate.

The meeting is poised to witness high-level deliberations with senior party leaders devising a strategy to capitalize on the emerging electoral dynamics and capitalize on the organizational strength of the BJP. Candidate selection will be a carefully tailored process aimed at maximizing the party’s electoral footprint and leveraging its grassroots support.

Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP remains firmly focused on its mission to secure a resounding mandate, driven by its vision of inclusive development and transformative governance. Today’s deliberations of the Central Election Committee are expected to mark a crucial milestone in the party’s electoral roadmap, paving the way for a spirited and determined campaign in the coming days.

(With inputs from ANI)

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)

They’re all trying to portray each other as unreliable conservatives.

Sonowal joined the BJP in 2011. He is a three-time Assam MLA, two-time Lok Sabha member and one-time Rajya Sabha MP.

Guwahati: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released the first list of 195 candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. According to the list announced by the saffron camp, Rajya Sabha member and Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will contest from Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat, replacing sitting BJP MP and Union Minister Rameswar Teli.

Besides Sonowal, the saffron party named ten other candidates from Assam for the general elections. The northeastern state has 14 Lok Sabha seats. Of the 11 BJP candidates in Assam, only four existing Lok Sabha members have been given tickets this time, while two others from Rajya Sabha will try their luck.

The remaining five, including a minister and an MLA, will contest the Lok Sabha elections for the first time. Sonowal, a former chief minister of Assam, is now a minister in Narendra Modi’s government and is considered trusted by the prime minister.

He was also a minister of state and held several portfolios before becoming the BJP’s first chief minister in 2016. Two-time MP Teli, the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2014.

He was also a two-time MLA. Teli is also the Minister of State for Labor and Employment. Sonowal, a former president of the influential All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), was an MLA (2001) and Lok Sabha MP (2004) from the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP).

Sonowal joined the BJP in 2011. He is a three-time Assam MLA, two-time Lok Sabha member and one-time Rajya Sabha MP. Another Rajya Sabha member Kamakhya Prasad Tasa was nominated from Kaliabor, which has now become Kaziranga after the delimitation of constituencies.

The seat is currently represented by Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi. Tasa, a prominent member of the BJP’s tea tribe, was a member of Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019. The LS polls will be the first elections in Assam after the Election Commission of India conducted the delimitation exercise in the state last year.

The delimitation exercise was strongly criticized by the opposition parties, alleging that it was done only to help the ruling BJP.

(With PTI inputs)

According to the BJP’s Jharkhand candidate list for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Arjun Munda and Annapurna Devi, both Union ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet, will contest against Khunti ST and Koderma respectively.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: The BJP on Saturday announced its first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, naming candidates for 11 of the 14 seats in Jharkhand, including Union ministers Arjun Munda and Annapurna Devi, as well as former Congress MP Geeta Koda.

Munda and Annapurna Devi, both Union ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet, will contest against Khunti ST and Koderma respectively.

Meanwhile, former Congress MP Geeta Koda, wife of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, has been summoned from Singhbhum (ST). She had won the Singhbhum seat in 2019 on a Congress ticket by a margin of 72,155 votes, defeating BJP’s Laxman Gilua.

Here is the list of candidates announced by the BJP for Jharkhand:

1. Rajmahal– Tala Marandi
2. Dumka– Sunil Soren
3. Godda– Nishikant Dubey
4. Koderma– Annapurna Devi
5. Ranchi– Sanjay Seth
6. Jamshedpur– Vidyut Baran Mahato
7. Singhbhum– Geeta Koda
8. Khunti–Arjun Munda
9. Lohardaga– Sameer Oraon
10. Palamu– Vishnu Dayal Ram
11. Hazaribagh– Manish Jaiswal

New candidates

Among the eleven names announced by the BJP, there are four new candidates including Geeta Koda, Rajya Sabha MP Samir Oraon, Tala Marandi and Manish Jaiswal.

The seven other candidates will stand for re-election from their respective constituencies, including Union ministers Arjun Munda (Khunti ST) and Annapurna Devi (Koderma).

BJP’s Hazaribag MLA Manish Jaiswal will replace incumbent party member Jayant Sinha from the Hazaribag Lok Sabha seat. Jaiswal won Hazaribag constituency in 2019 through Dr. Ramchandra Prasad from Congress.

Sinha, son of former Union minister Yashwant Sinha, said earlier in the day that he had asked party president JP Nadda to relieve him from direct election duties as he wanted to focus on “fighting climate change in Bharat”.

Stalwarts took part in important seats

The BJP has reposed faith in its Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand Samir Oraon, whose term ends on May 3, for the Lok Sabha polls. Oraon, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2018, has been taken over from the Lohardaga (ST) seat, replacing existing MP Sudarshan Bhagat, whose victory margin in the last polls was barely 10,363.

The saffron party fielded its former Jharkhand state president Tala Marandi from Rajmahal (ST) seat, which is currently occupied by JMM’s Vijay Hansdak.

In 2019, Hemlal Murmu of BJP had contested from the seat and lost to JMM. Marandi had won the Borio assembly seat in 2014 on a BJP ticket. In 2019, Marandi had joined the AJSU party after he was denied a ticket from the BJP. However, he lost to JMM’s Lobin Hembrom. Marandi returned to BJP again in 2022.

Union Minister Arjun Munda has been re-elected from Khunti (ST) seat, which he had won by a narrow margin of 1445 votes in 2019, defeating Congress’ Kalicharan Munda.

The Palamu (SC) seat will be contested by former Director General of Police Vishnu Dayal Ram, who won the seat by a margin of 4,77,606 votes during the last polls.

Union Minister Annapurna Devi, who is contesting on a JVM-P ticket from Koderma in 2019, will contest from the same seat. She defeated BJP president and former chief minister Babulal Marandi by a margin of 4,55,600 votes.

From the Ranchi seat, the party has fielded sitting MP Sanjay Seth, who had defeated Congress’ Subodh Kant Sahay by a margin of 2,82,780 votes.

From Jamshedpur, BJP MP Bidyut Baran Mahto was repeated. Mahto had defeated current Chief Minister Champai Soren in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls by 3,02,090 votes.

Dumka (ST) went to incumbent MP Sunil Soren, who defeated JMM president Shibu Soren in the 2019 polls by a margin of 47,590 votes, while incumbent MP Nishikant Dubey from Godda will contest. Dubey had defeated JVM-P’s Pradeep Yadav by 1,84,227 votes.

(With input from agencies)