BJP announced its first list of candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha Elections
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Central Election Committee on Thursday finalised party candidates from six Lok Sabha constituencies, kicking off the selection process which it hopes to complete by August-end.
Projecting veteran leader LK Advani as its prime ministerial candidate who will contest from his old constituency of Gandhinagar in Gujarat, the saffron party came out with a list of six names in what can be termed as a political jeer directed at the Congress-led UPA government.
There has been speculation that the Congress and the Left may part ways over the Indo-US nuclear deal, precipitating early elections, which are otherwise due early next year.
BJP announced its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The list includes the party’s prime ministerial candidate LK Advani from Gandhinagar constitutency in Gujarat.
In declaring the first list of candidates before a formal announcement of Lok Sabha elections, the party has hinted it is ready to face the people. The party hopes that in signalling its preparedness and resolve, it will accrue a first mover advantage. “The countdown to the end of the UPA rule has begun from today,” party general secretary Anant Kumar said. Others on this first list include Navjot Singh Sidhu (Amritsar), Vinod Khanna (Gurdaspur), Shripad Naik (Panaji), Anurag Thakur (Hamirpur) and TPS Rawat (Garhwal). The party is likely to announce the names of another 35 to 40 candidates when its central election committee meets on July 11. The meeting would cover some seats from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.
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