In a big jolt to the Congres party ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Suresh Pachouri joined the BJP in Bhopal on Saturday.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday exuded confidence in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and said that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would get more than 400 seats.
With a lack of consensus over the allotment of seats across states baring chinks in the Opposition armour, senior Congress leader Mukul Wasnik on Friday asserted that all partners in the INDIA bloc were together and will fight the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 'together'.
VCK MP Thol. Thirumavalavan, while speaking to the reporters here said that his party was allotted two seats, both reserved constituencies while the Vaiko-led MDMK was given one by the alliance's lead partner.
Yediyurappa who is a member of the BJP's Parliamentary Board and the CEC on Tuesday said that he will be in the national capital Delhi for the meeting.
"I would like to thank PM Modi, National President JP Nadda, and HM Amit Shah. With the faith they (BJP leadership) have shown in me and the people of Durg, I assure them that we will win this seat with an even bigger margin. In the resolution that PM Modi has taken to lead India to the 3
Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday released its first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi again.
After the Bharatiya Janata Party announced the defector from Congress Chinatmani Maharaj from the Surguja constituency in Chhattisgarh, he assured that he would remain in the party and said that he would win the Lok Sabha elections.
Notably, the BJP has fielded party leader Praveen Kumar Nishad (son of Sanjay Nishad) from the Sant Kabir Nagar seat in Uttar Pradesh. Currently, he is also an MP from this seat.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kamaljeet Sehrawat has expressed her gratitude to the party leadership after she was announced as the party candidate for the West Delhi constituency in the first list of Lok Sabha candidates declared on Saturday and said it is a huge responsibility
On his candidature from Bilaspur constituency, BJP leader Tokhan Sahu said, "I want to thank the central and state leadership... The whole country has faith in PM Modi. Only Narendra Modi can take this country forward. The government has worked in every sector. Only PM Modi government can