A day after being named the BJP candidate for the Howrah Lok Sabha constituency, Rathin Chakraborty hit the ground running on Sunday as he offered prayers at a local temple before launching campaign.
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.
"All the names were already assumed. They have done nothing new. The question is how much is the public going to accept the BJP. They keep talking about 400, they are not telling from where they are getting it. There is doubt among the people that they are getting the majority through the
After the BJP announced BJP leader Gajendra Singh Shekhawat's candidature from Jodhpur constituency in Rajasthan for the upcoming Lok Sabha election, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat thanked the state Chief Minister and party leadership.
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
Soon after the BJP's announcement of his candidature from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the Lok Sabha polls, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar on Saturday said that he was honoured and happy.
In an attack on the opposition parties, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Saturday said that unlike them, the BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi refrains from playing the caste card or making false promises for electoral gains.
Addressing a press conference here, the BJP MLA took a dig at the Congress, saying that the 'ship is drowning and it could not be saved' even after party's several efforts.
Gadkari has accused the Congress party of concealing the context and meaning of the interview with an "intent to create confusion, sensation, and disrepute" to the BJP leader and to "build fissure and rift" within the party.
"PM Modi has dedicated his life to the nation and he has not taken a single day of leave. People have supported him too and that's why this time the BJP will cross 400 seats in this Loksabha and in the state it will also be crossing 45 seats," CM Shinde said.
The BJP's Central Election Committee has decided that Dr Jitender Singh will contest Lok Sabha polls from Udhampur and Jugal Kishor Sharma from Jammu, said top party sources.