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BJP fifth list full of surprises; 37 MPs dropped, actors, ex-Congress stars fielded | Latest News India

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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s fifth list of 111 Lok Sabha elections’ candidates is full of surprises. The party has dropped 37 sitting MPs, including union ministers Ashwini Kumar Choubey, VK Singh and Varun Gandhi. In a surprise move, it has fielded actors Kangana Ranaut and Arun Govil. Naveen Jindal joined BJP in the presence of party leader Vinod Tawde at BJP HQ in New Delhi (Photo by Arvind Yadav/ Hindustan Times) Several ex-Congress stalwarts and other leaders from the Opposition — who joined the BJP — have been named in the list. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. Source link

BJP’s fifth list for Lok Sabha polls: Arun Govil, Kangana Ranaut named | Latest News India

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced its fifth list of Lok Sabha contenders for the upcoming general elections, fielding among 111 candidates four Union ministers including Dharmendra Pradhan, actors Kangana Ranaut and Arun Govil, and industrialist and former Congress leader Navin Jindal. Kangana Ranaut will contest the Lok Sabha election 2024 from Mandi, Ramayan’s Ram Arun Govil from Meerut. The party also made some key exclusions, dropping Varun Gandhi from Pilibhit in UP, minister Ashwani Choubey from Buxar in Bihar, minister of state (MoS) Gen (retd) VK Singh from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and former minister Anant Kumar Hegde from Uttara Kannada in Karnataka. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. Also Read | Abhijit Gangopadhyay gets BJP Lok Sabha ticket days after resigning as Calcutta HC judge The list contained candidates from 17 states, including 18 from Odisha, where the party announced on Friday that it will not ally with the state’s ruling Biju Janata Dal, ending weeks of speculation. Ranaut will contest from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh …

BJP reveals Lok Sabha plan for Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar | Latest News India

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New Delhi: Union minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday hinted that Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar may contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. While Nirmala Sitharaman is the finance minister, S Jaishankar holds the external affairs portfolio.(ANI) Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar are two of the most eloquent ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet. They are members of the Upper House of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. While Nirmala Sitharaman is the finance minister, S Jaishankar holds the external affairs portfolio. They have been MPs for a long time now but haven’t faced popular elections. Joshi revealed that the party is planning their electoral debut in the Lok Sabha elections this year. Joshi, who holds the Coal and Mines portfolio, said it has not been decided if Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar will contest from Karnataka. Also read: ‘Everything required to make India 3rd largest economy will be done’: Nirmala Sitharaman to HT “It is appearing in the media. More or less it is final that …

Farmers’ protest 2024 Updates: Centre-farmers to hold fourth round of meeting on February 18

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“We appeal to PM again… not a question of Punjab or Haryana alone”: Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher Amid a third round of talks with the central government ending in a stalemate, the General Secretary of Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarwan Singh Pandher on Friday urged an intervention on part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the farmers’ issues adding that they would like to solve the issues ‘amicably’.  Addressing a press conference on Friday, the farmer leader raised concerns over the central government’s use of para-military forces to resist the farmers that have left hundreds injured.  ”The demands of the farmers and farm labourers of the country are united, everyone is fighting together. Look, now there are 54 serious injuries. The way the overall number is 400. People have suffered huge losses, so this is continuously happening. So we have raised most of these things in the meeting yesterday and we will again appeal to the Honorable Prime Minister through you.”“It is not appropriate that military force is imposed on them, give …