"It's possible only in the BJP that the face of Sandeshkhali movement Ms Rekha Patra has been made the party nominee from Basirhat," says BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari.
The BJP on Saturday, March 24, announced a ticket to Rekha Patra, a woman from Sandeshkhali who was a 'victim' and part of the protests against powerful Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan.
She has been fielded from the Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency.
Sandeshkhali, which falls under the Basirhat Lok Sabha seat, has been in the limelight for the past three months as several women led protests against Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides, accusing them of sexual assault and land grab.
Kerala BJP president K Surendran has been named as the party candidate against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from the Wayanad seat.
Rajmata Ms Amrita Roy, a member of the Krishnanagar Royal family who joined the BJP last week, is the party candidate from Krishnanagar. She will take on Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra, who was 'expelled' from Lok Sabha in December 2023.
Former MoS Debashree Chowdhury has been given a ticket from Kolkata South instead of Roiganj. Former West Bengal strongman Dilip Ghosh has been shifted from Medinipur to Bardhaman-Durgapur replacing sitting MP S S Ahluwalia while Ms Agnimitra will be party candidate for Medinipur.
Former Congress MP Naveen Jindal is also among the BJP nominees for the Lok Sabha elections. In Uttar Pradesh, the saffron party sprang a minor surprise as Varun Gandhi has been dropped from Pilibhit while his mother Maneka Gandhi will yet again contest from Sultanpur.
Former Congress leader Jitin Prasada, who joined the BJP in 2021, now replaces Varun Gandhi for Pilibhit -- once held by Maneka Gandhi.
In a jolt to Congress, industrialist Naveen Jindal has joined the saffron party and has been fielded from Kurukshetra in Haryana.
Arun Govil will be BJP nominee from the Meerut Lok Sabha seat. Former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who joined BJP after resigning from high office, got a ticket from the Tamluk seat in West Bengal.
Popular local leaders Arjun Singh and Tapas Roy, who recently rejoined the BJP from the Trinamool Congress, will contest from the Barrackpore and Kolkata North seats, respectively.
Sita Soren will fight from Dumka (Jharkhand). The Lotus party has dropped ex-Union minister Anant Kumar Hegde from Uttara Kannada constituency.
In Maharashtra, it named MLA Ram Satpute for the Solapur (Scheduled Caste) Lok Sabha seat and retained MP Sunil Mendhe from Bhandara-Gondiya. It announced the name of Ashok Nete from Gadchiroli-Chimur.
Satpute, the MLA from Malshiraj in Solapur, will take on the Congress' Praniti Shinde, a three-time legislator and daughter of former Union minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
In Odisha, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan will contest from Sambalpur and the party's spokesperson Sambit Patra will try his luck from Puri once again after losing out in a close contest to BJD's Pinaki Mishra in 2019.
In the latest list, the saffron party has named Raghav Lakhanpal from Saharanpur, Atul Garg from Ghaziabad among other candidates. Gen V K Singh (retd) represented Ghaziabad in last two polls. Former army chief reportedly opted out of the race.
Union minister Ashwini Choubey also dropped from Buxar (Bihar).
Other key names in BJP's 5th list are Nityanand Rai from Ujiarpur, Giriraj Singh from Begusarai, Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib, Jagadish Shettar from Belagaum, K Sudhakaran from Chikkaballapur,
Pratap Sarangi from Balasore, Ms Aparajita Sarangi from Bhubaneshwar and sitting MP Raju Bista from Darjeeling. Rajiv Pratap Rudy will be contesting again from Saran.
Ram Kripal Yadav from Pataliputra and Union Minister R K Singh will again try his fortune from Arrah. In Odisha, Jual Oram will be BJP nominee from Sundargarh.
On his candidature from Kollam Lok Sabha seat, BJP candidate G Krishna Kumar says, "I thank my state & central leaders and PM Modi for showing so much faith in me. I come from Thiruvananthapuram but he (PM Modi) had the confidence in me that I can give a good fight from Kollam...".
Trouble for Akhilesh Yadav? BSP's seven (7) Muslim candidates may upset Samajwadi Party's math in UP
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Ms Mayawati has unveiled its initial list of 16 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. This move is expected to shake up the political landscape, particularly in Muslim-majority areas, as seven of the candidates nominated for seats in western UP are Muslims.
Majid Ali will contest from Saharanpur, Shripal Singh from Kairana, Dara Singh Prajapati from Muzaffarnagar, Vijyendra Singh from Bijnor, Surendra Pal Singh from Nagina (a Scheduled Caste seat), and Mohammad Irfan Saifi from Moradabad.
Zishan Khan will represent the party in Rampur,
** Shaulat Ali in Sambhal and
*** Mozahid Hussain in Amroha,
Devvrat Tyagi is BSP nominee from Meerut, and Praveen Bansal in Baghpat.
Rajendra Singh Solanki will contest from Gautam Buddha Nagar, Girish Chandra Jatav from Bulandshahr (another Scheduled Caste seat),
Abid Ali from Aonla, Anis Ahmad Khan alias Phool Babu from Pilibhit, and Dodaram Verma from Shahjahanpur (also a Scheduled Caste seat).
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