The ruling National Democractic Alliance has reached seat-sharing agreement in Bihar for the Lok Sabha polls with the BJP set to contest 17 seats and JD-U 16
"Congress party despite being power in the state, they aren't able to find candidates in any Lok Sabha constituencies. They're trying hard to convince their minister to contest the elections but fortunately, the mood across the state is in the favour of the BJP and PM Modi..." said Karnat
Days after Congress MLA Amba Prasad claimed that the BJP had offered her ticket to contest from Hazaribag in the Lok Sabha elections, state BJP president Babulal Marandi said, "She should tell the name of who had offered her or whom she had talked to... I have not talked to her at all."
NCP (SCP) senior leader and MLC Eknath Khadse on Friday announced that he will not be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections due to health issues and that his daughter Rohini Khadse will also not contest from the Raver Lok Sabha constituency in Jalgaon district.
Pawan Singh, who had expressed his inability to contest the Lok Sabha elections from West Bengal's Asansol just a day after the BJP announced his name for the constituency, took a u-turn on Wednesday stating that he will fight the elections.
"The Congress was not finding candidates to contest the coming parliamentary polls due to fear of defeat. Even the ministers are hesitant to contest. The reality is that the Congress does not have the candidates to fight the elections," Bommai said.
Days after his son earned a fresh ticket to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, state minister and Nishad Party national president Sanjay Nishad called on BJP national president JP Nadda at his residence in the national capital on Wednesday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party released the second list of Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday, consisting of 72 candidates, including three former Chief Ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat, Basvaraj Bommai as well as four Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Thakur, and Piyush Goy
Ahead of the Arunachal Pradesh assembly polls which are scheduled to be held alongside the Lok Sabha polls this year, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced a list of 60 candidates.
AIMIM will contest 11 out of 40 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Bihar. The announcement was made by party MLA Akhtarul Iman at a media interaction on Wednesday in Bihar.