Lok Sabha Elections: PM Modi Chairs BJP CEC Meet, Likely To Release List Before Poll Dates Announcement

Lok Sabha Elections: The BJP held a meeting of its Central Election Committee, chaired by PM Modi, to discuss the strategy for the upcoming general elections.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Central Election Committee (CEC) at the party's headquarters in the national capital which ended early Friday. Senior BJP leaders attended the meeting including party national president JP Nadda and Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh as the party looks to name its candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.    

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai, Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, Madhya Pradesh's Mohan Yadav, Uttarakhand's Pushkar Singh Dhami, and Goa's Pramod Sawant were also present during the meeting.

State leaders attend the CEC meeting when candidates for constituencies falling in their respective states are discussed. 

During the meeting, a large number of those seats were discussed that the party failed to grab in the 2019 general elections, reported PTI quoting party sources as saying.  

The meeting came weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections amid the buzz that the saffron party is likely to release its first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. 

As per the report, several Union ministers like Bhupender Yadav, Dharmendra Pradhan, and Mansukh Mandaviya are likely to receive a party ticket for the Lok Sabha elections after they were not chosen as candidates in the recently concluded Rajya Sabha polls. 

On Wednesday, the BJP brainstormed over the party’s probable candidates in many states for the Lok Sabha elections. Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda held separate meetings with the leaders of the party from several states, including Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand, among others.

The first list is expected to include the names of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, PTI reported, citing party sources. The list is also likely to have names of candidates for the seats that the party failed to clinch in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the report added. 

The first list for the 2019 elections also included Modi and Shah — the then party’s national president — who made his Lok Sabha poll debut from Gujarat's Gandhinagar.