Lok Sabha polls: BJP banks on popular faces in film, sports fraternity as PM Modi eyes third term

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), which is searching for one other time period within the corridors of energy at Centre, has introduced a number of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The get together has dropped a number of sitting MPs whereas additionally giving one other run to many others. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s assured of a 3rd tenure on the workplace, has set the goal of 370 seats for the BJP to win within the upcoming polls, as a part of which the get together has fielded candidates from quite a few walks of life, together with actors and sportspersons.

Within the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, the BJP has banked on a number of personalities together with the newly inducted actor Kangana Ranaut, and Ramayan fame Arun Govil into the get together.

The BJP has given tickets to various personalities.

• Kangana Ranaut: Filmstar, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
• Arun Govil: Actor, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
• Hema Malini: Filmstar, Mathura, UP
• Manoj Tiwari: Bhojpuri star, Northeast Delhi, Delhi
• Dinesh Lal Yadav: Actor, Azamgarh, UP
• Locket Chatterjee: Actress, Hooghly, WB
• Devendra Jhajharia: Paralympic athlete, Churu, Rajasthan
• Suresh Gopi: Malayalum movie star, Thrissur, Kerala
• Ravi Kishan: Bhojpuri star, Gorakhpur, UP
• Naveen Jindal: Industrialist, Kurukshetra, Haryana

1. Kangana Ranaut has been fielded from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh. Ram Swaroop Sharma had received the election in 2019. He handed away in 2021.
2. Arun Govil was given a ticket from the Meerut seat, changing Rajendra Agarwal who received within the 2019 polls. Govil is an actor who performed Lord Ram in Ramayan.
3. Hema Malini is a two-time MP from Mathura. She has been given a rerun from the seat. An actor for many years, she formally joined the BJP in 2004. Malini will tackle Congress candidate Mukesh Dhangar from the Mathura seat.
4. Manoj Tiwari is a Bhojpuri star and singer. He’s the sitting two-time MP of the BJP from the Northeast Delhi seat and a former Delhi BJP chief. He’s the one Delhi BJP MP to be given a rerun in 2024. Relaxation all six sitting MPs have been dropped from their respective seats. He has once more been given a ticket from his constituency.
5. Dinesh Lal Yadav, a sitting BJP MP from the Azamgarh seat, has been given the ticket once more. He had received the byelection in 2022 after Akhilesh Yadav, the then sitting MP, had resigned following his election within the Uttar Pradesh Meeting polls. The BJP has entrusted him as soon as once more to win the seat towards Samajwadi Party’s Dharmendra Yadav. He’s an actor by career.
6. Locket Chatterjee is the sitting BJP MP from the Hooghly Lok Sabha seat. Chatterjee, an actor, began her profession within the TMC and later joined the BJP in 2015. She received the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Hooghly seat and the get together has given her ticket towards TMC’s Rachna Banerjee.
7. Devendra Jhajharia is a gold medalist within the 2016 Summer time Paralympics. He has been given a ticket by the BJP to contest from the Churu Lok Sabha seat in Rajasthan. He’s up towards Congress’ Rahul Kaswan who was a two-time BJP MP from the seat.
8. Suresh Gopi is a Malayalam movie star who has been fielded from Kerala’s Thrissur Lok Sabha seat. Famend as a famous person within the South, he was nominated to Rajya Sabha in April 2016 within the class of eminent residents and joined the BJP in October the identical 12 months. He has been fielded towards CPI’s VS Sunil Kumar and Congress’ Ok Muraleedharan.
9. Ravi Kishan, a famend actor in Bollywood, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, is a sitting MP from the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat. He has been an actor with a number of movies to his identify. He joined the Congress and contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the Jaunpur constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In 2017, he give up the Congress and joined the BJP. He received the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Gorakhpur seat and has been given a ticket as soon as once more by the get together.
10. Naveen Jindal: Naveen Jindal is an industrialist who joined the BJP forward of the final elections. He has been fielded from Haryana’s Kurukshetra.

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