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  • Lok Sabha polls 2024: Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Congress announces a list of 7 candidates for upcoming polls in Bihar and Punjab

    The Central Election Committee of the Congress party has selected candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Bihar and Punjab. The meeting, chaired by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and attended by leaders like Sonia Gandhi, Salman Khurshid, and Ambika Soni, finalized the candidates for several key constituencies.Bihar CandidatesPaschim Champaran: Madan Mohan TiwariMuzaffarpur: Ajay NishadMaharajganj: Akash Prasad SinghSamastipur (SC): Sunny HazariSasaram (SC): Manoj KumarPunjab CandidatesHoshiarpur (SC): Ms. Yamini GomarFaridkot (SC): Smt. Amarjit Kaur SahokeAllUttar PradeshMaharashtraTamil NaduWest BengalBiharKarnatakaAndhra PradeshTelanganaKeralaMadhya PradeshRajasthanDelhiOther StatesWhile the Congress is contesting all the 13 seats in Punjab, in Bihar it is set to field candidates on nine seats and is part of the Mahagathbandhan formation with RJD and the Left parties.

    The Congress has so far declared 285 candidates for the seven phase parliamentary polls that began on April 19.

  • BJP’s Chief Election Committee meets to short-list candidates for upcoming Assembly polls

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI:The Central Election Committee (CEC) of the BJP met here on Wednesday to finalise the party candidates for the seats for which it has so far not named its nominees for the upcoming state Assembly elections.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders met at the party headquarters to deliberate on the probable names and short-list the candidates.

    The CEC has so far announced the names of candidates for the Assam polls and the first few phases of the election in West Bengal.

    It has also named its nominees for a number of seats in Kerala and all the nine constituencies in Puducherry the party will contest.

    The polls in the four states of Assam, West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry will be held between March 27 and April 29.

    Assam will have three-phase polls, Bengal will have eight-phase polls while Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will have single-phase elections on April 6.

    The counting of votes will be taken up on May 2.

  • BJP’s Central Election Committee meeting today, likely to finalise candidates for Assembly polls

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: A meeting of the BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC) in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be held in the evening today and is likely to finalise candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal and Assam.

    Sources said that the party is likely to finalise its list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal and Assam today. Assam BJP chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass said: “There will be a meeting of the parliamentary board at 5 pm, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”

    Earlier today, Dass attended a meeting at BJP chief JP Nadda’s residence. In the meeting, several ministers were present including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Jitendra Singh and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal were present in the meeting.