First list for Lok Sabha elections will be released shortly; BJP CEC meeting concluded

At the party headquarters in Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held its Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting to discuss the Lok Sabha seats across approximately 17 states. The CEC also set seals on over 155 seats, the list of which will be made public in the coming day or two.

Present at the meeting were Chief Ministers, State Presidents, JP Nadda, the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Organization General Secretary BL Santosh, and In-charges, Co-Incharges, and Election In-charges of many states.

Attending the conference were the chief ministers of Goa, Uttarakhand, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.
Discussions over the names of candidates for each of Madhya Pradesh’s 29 seats took place in the presence of BJP State President VD Sharma, BJP leader Prahlad Patel, and former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
According to sources, the names of four to five Telangana aspirants may be revealed shortly.
The three sitting MPs, Arvind Dharmapuri, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, and G Kishan Reddy, can perhaps get tickets once again.

The names of the candidates for the meeting were discussed with Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Leaders of the BJP from Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Kerala, Gujarat, Jharkhand, and Uttarakhand were also consulted over the candidate names.
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.

There have also been talks about two or three seats in Delhi, but there will be further meetings. One Goan seat has finalized candidates, while one seat is still up for grabs.

“Crossing 400” is the campaign slogan that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen for this year’s Lok Sabha elections. The goal of the BJP is to get over 370 seats by itself.