Election 2024 Updates: Navneet Rana Joins BJP in Nagpur; Erode MP Dies After Suicide Attempt

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE News: The country’s political climate is becoming more charged ahead of the next Lok Sabha Election 2024, which is scheduled to take place in seven stages between April 19 and June 1. results of the election, which saw over 90 crore eligible voters cast ballots for 543 Lower House seats, will be announced on June 4. The Election Commission of India (ECI) declared elections in four states: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim, in addition to the national elections for the 18th Lok Sabha.

The Congress party also unveiled its eighth list of candidates on Wednesday, coinciding with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) publication of its seventh list, which includes names for 403 seats so far.

TOP HIGHLIGHTS | LOK SABHA ELECTION 2024 LIVE UPDATES
BJP Acquires Navneet Rana: Late on Wednesday night, Navneet Rana, the sitting member from Amravati, joined the BJP in Nagpur, accompanied by Chandrashekhar Bawankule, the head of the party’s state unit.

PM Modi and Amit Shah are named as star campaigners by the Shiv Sena: Amit Shah and Prime Minister Modi are among the coalition leaders that Shiv Sena has nominated as prominent candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Leader of Congress Removed Due To Remarks About Kangana Ranaut: Due to controversy surrounding Supriya Shrinate’s comments on Kangana Ranaut, the Congress party decided not to field her as a candidate for the Lok Sabha elections.

MP Ganeshamoorthy Dies: Erode in Chair On Thursday, MP Ganeshamoorthy departed from this life. Ganeshamoorthy attempted suicide and was admitted to Coimbatore Hospital on Sunday. He was refused a party ticket to run in the next elections since he belonged to the MDMK party.

Why Nirmala Sitharaman Is Not Running for LS Polls The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) offered Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman a ticket to run in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, but she turned it down due to a lack of funding needed to contest the elections. The minister said that she was offered the choice to run from Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh by BJP leader JP Nadda.

Pratibha Singh’s candidacy in the Congress: The grand old party’s in-charge of the hill state, Rajeev Shukla, said on Wednesday that Himachal Pradesh Congress president Pratibha Singh has delegated the choice of whether to fight the Lok Sabha elections to the party high command. The Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, MP Singh recently announced that she will not be running in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections since the ground situation was “not favourable” and the party members were discouraged.

Major setback for Maha-Vikas Aghadi (MVA): Chief of Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), Prakash Ambedkar, said on Wednesday that his organization will field eight candidates in the forthcoming Maharashtra Lok Sabha election. This action suggests that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and the VBA are no longer in partnership.

FOR STATES AND UTS, BJP APPOINTS IN-CHARGES AND CO-INCHARGES
Several figures who were not granted tickets to contest in the polls were included on the BJP’s list of nominees for the Lok Sabha poll in-charges and co-incharges, which was announced on Wednesday for a number of states and union territories. According to a party statement, Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Sharma will oversee Maharashtra, while Bihar MLA Nitin Nabin will oversee Chhattisgarh.

Co-incharges for Uttar Pradesh were selected as Bihar MLA Sanjeev Chaurasia, Ramesh Bidhuri, and Sanjay Bhatia. Despite not receiving a party nomination for the next elections, Bidhuri and Bhatia are both members of the outgoing Lok Sabha. Although Baijayant “Jay” Panda, the vice president of the BJP, is in charge of the Uttar Pradesh polls, he is probably going to be busy campaigning as he was selected as the party’s nominee for the Kendrapara seat in Odisha.

Assam and Delhi have been assigned to Haryana commanders O. P. Dhankar and Captain Abhimanyu, respectively. Nalin Kumar Kateel, the former president of the Karnataka BJP who was not nominated for the Lok Sabha elections, would serve as Kerala’s co-incharge. Prakash Javadekar, a former minister of the Union, was previously named the state’s chief executive.

Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Telangana, and Tripura have been assigned to BJP vice president M Chuba Ao, MP Ajit Gopchade, Bihar MLC Devesh Kumar, spokesman Nalin Kohli, Karnataka MLA Abhay Patil, and Avinash Rai Khanna, respectively.