Lok Sabha elections 2024: Decision on Maneka-Varun ticket tomorrow
lok sabha elections 2024: bjp has so far released three lists for the lok sabha elections, in which names of 276 candidates have been declared. 51 candidates from Uttar Pradesh have been declared.
lok sabha elections 2024: Nominations for the first phase of lok sabha elections have started. Meanwhile, political parties are busy deciding their candidates. bjp has also so far decided its candidates for only 276 seats in the 543-seat lok sabha, while the party is going through the process of finalizing names for other seats. The remaining seats also include 29 seats in Uttar Pradesh, out of which most of the people's eyes are on the Pilibhit and Sultanpur seats. the bjp has been fielding two members of the 'Gandhi family' from these seats. varun gandhi is the mp from the Pilibhit seat, while his mother and former Union minister Maneka gandhi is the mp from the Sultanpur seat. There is a discussion going on that this time the tickets of varun and Maneka may be cut. The decision on whether this discussion will prove correct or bjp will show confidence only in Varun-Maneka is going to be taken on saturday (23 March). According to bjp sources, the party will release its fourth list on saturday, which will include many seats in Uttar Pradesh including Pilibhit and Sultanpur.
According to bjp sources, a special meeting has been organized in delhi on saturday to decide the candidates for the remaining seats of Uttar Pradesh. In this meeting, leaders of the UP core group along with bjp high command will participate, which includes chief minister Yogi Adityanath, and bjp state president Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh. The future of varun gandhi and Maneka gandhi will also be decided in this meeting itself. After this, candidates for many seats in the state will be declared on saturday itself. Among them, the name of Mulayam Singh Yadav's younger daughter-in-law, aparna Yadav, can also be there, who is being discussed against Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav on the traditional Mainpuri seat of the Yadav family.
The discussion about the bjp high command being angry with varun gandhi and Maneka gandhi has been going on for a long time. Indications of this are also visible from the recent statements of varun gandhi, in which prime minister Narendra Modi and other bjp leaders have been targeted. Besides, the policies of the central government have also been criticized. Especially varun gandhi has been seen as active in favor of the farmers' movement.
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