Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: BSP releases first list of 11 candidates in Uttar Pradesh
The Bahujan Samaj Party has released its first list of 11 candidates for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, naming contenders for a group of seats in western Uttar Pradesh. Who is contesting where The list includes the following candidates: Girish Chand – Nagina Kunwar Danish Ali – Amroha Haji Mohammad Yakub – Meerut Yogesh Verma – Bulandshahr Manoj Kumar Soni – Agra Rajveer Singh – Fatehpur Sikri The list also names candidates for Gautam Buddh Nagar, Saharanpur, Bijnor and Aligarh. Background The BSP was contesting the 2019 election in UttarRead More
BJP’s first list of candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2019: Modi from Varanasi, Amit Shah from Gandhinagar
On 21 March 2019 the Bharatiya Janata Party announced its first list of 184 candidates for the Lok Sabha election, covering 20 states and union territories. Who was named Narendra Modi was renominated from Varanasi. Party president Amit Shah was named for Gandhinagar, the seat held for decades by L. K. Advani, who was not renominated. Home Minister Rajnath Singh was renominated from Lucknow, and Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur. Other names included General V. K. Singh for Ghaziabad, D. V. Sadananda Gowda for Bangalore North and Dushyant Singh for Jhalawar-Baran.Read More
Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir joins BJP, likely to contest 2019 Lok Sabha poll
Former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday and is expected to be named the party’s candidate for one of the Lok Sabha seats in Delhi. Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Arun Jaitley were present when the former opening batsman was formally inducted at an event in the capital. BJP swipe at the Congress On the same day, the BJP mocked the Congress after it postponed a scheduled press briefing. The Congress had been due to speak to the media at about 10 am butRead More