Buzz Regarding BJP Lok Sabha Poll List Following Late-Night Meeting: Shivraj May Obtain Vidisha, Vasundhara May Not Make The Cut

In the next 24 to 48 hours, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to release its first list of 100 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The majority of prominent politicians, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are expected to be included on the first list, according to sources.

The saffron party intends to field former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha, the constituency from which the late Sushma Swaraj (BJP leader and former External Affairs Minister) ran and won multiple times. The party held a poll body meeting in the nation’s capital late on Thursday night to take a call on the first list of candidates for the elections scheduled in April-May.

Vasundhara Raje, the former chief minister of Rajasthan, has been ordered by the party to abstain from the elections.

PM Modi, who is running from Varanasi, Amit Shah, who is running from Gandhinagar, Rajnath Singh, who is running from Lucknow, Nitin Gadkari, who is running from Nagpur, and Smriti Irani, who is running from Amethi, are expected to be on the list.

Before the Election Commission announces the dates of the Lok Sabha elections, which are anticipated to take place in April or May, the party is likely to declare its candidates for the “weak seats” in Uttar Pradesh.

Three sitting MPs, G Kishan Reddy, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, and Arvind Dharmapuri, will get tickets from the venerable party, which intends to field candidates for each of Telangana’s 17 seats. Unlikely to get a ticket is BJP’s Soyam Bapu Rao, who lost his assembly seat in the most recent elections.

In opposition to Asaduddin Owaisi, the leader of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), the saffron party intends to run a Hindu lady candidate.

The BJP in Uttar Pradesh has decided not to run for all 80 seats, keeping some for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), one of its possible partners. At the most recent poll body meeting, 56 UP seats were decided upon.

The largest shift, however, will likely occur in Delhi, where the BJP intends to nominate outsiders in four of the seven seats.

For the last several years, the BJP has been asking all leaders for their opinions with the goal of winning at least 370 seats in the 2024 elections. The party is also taking into account comments via the NaMo app.

At the crucial meeting on Thursday, which started at 10:30 p.m. and continued for more than four hours at the party headquarters, the leaders discussed Lok Sabha seats across about 17 states and placed seals on more than 155 seats.

All of the Assamese politicians who were nominated for Lok Sabha seats were considered at the meeting, according to BJP sources. State Minister Rameshwar Teli may be sent to the Rajya Sabha, while Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal may run from Dibrugarh among the eleven seats that the BJP will vie for. Candidates for the Jammu seats were also discussed; discussions on Kashmir will happen at the next meeting.