Lok Sabha Elections HIGHLIGHTS: Congress Fields Tsering Namgyal As Its Candidate From Ladakh
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Lok Sabha Elections HIGHLIGHTS: Please follow this space and keep refreshing the page for all the latest updates and developments pertaining to the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Lok Sabha elections are set to be held across India in seven phases between April 19 to June 1. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.
Sixteen more candidates, including Bharatiya Janata Party's Manoj Tiwari and Harsh Malhotra, filed their nomination papers on Wednesday for the elections to the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital. Voting will be held in the national capital on May 25 in the sixth phase of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls.
According to Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), forty-two candidates have filed their nomination papers since the process for it started on Monday. The last date of filing nomination in Delhi is May 6. While Tiwari filed his nomination for contesting the North East Delhi seat, Malhotra submitted his papers for the East Delhi seat as the party's candidate. He won the North East Delhi seat for the BJP in 2014 and 2019, declared his income to be Rs 46.25 lakh in his income tax returned filed for 2022-23. He stated that his source of income are singing and acting, and as an MP.
The Delhi CEO encouraged voters to go through the election affidavits of candidates, uploaded on the official website, for information about them. Scrutiny of the filed nomination papers will be held on May 7 while the last date to withdraw names in May 9.
Delhi has 1.51 crore eligible voters, including 81.63 lakh men, 69.37 lakh women and 1,215 people from the third gender. Voting will take place in more than 13,000 polling booths across the city.
The BJP candidate from West Delhi Kamaljeet Sehrawat will file her nomination papers on Thursday. The poll contest in Delhi is between the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party-Congress alliance. The saffron party has won all seven seats two times in a row -- 2014 and 2019 -- and seeks to repeat the clean sweep this time too.
While the AAP is contesting the South Delhi, East Delhi, West Delhi and the New Delhi seats, its partner in the INDIA bloc, Congress, has announced candidates on North East, North West and Chandni Chowk seats. AAP's South Delhi seat nominee Sahi Ram is the only INDIA bloc candidate who has filed his nomination papers.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday urged the voters of Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency to elect BJP candidate K Madhavi Latha and "liberate" the seat from "Razakars". The former BJP chief campaigned for the saffron party candidate in Hyderabad LS segment on Wednesday night. "Since 40 years, the representative of 'Razakar' had gone and sat there (Parliament)," he said, in a reference to AIMIM.
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi is seeking re-election from the Hyderabad constituency in the present Lok Sabha polls. There is no need for anyone to be scared and that every voter, whether Hindu or Muslim, should vote for the lotus symbol and work to join Hyderabad with the mainstream, he added. Polling for the 17 LS seats in Telangana would be held on May 13.
Congress Fields Tsering Namgyal As Its Candidate From Ladakh
Congress fields Tsering Namgyal as its candidate from Ladakh.
Congress fields Tsering Namgyal as its candidate from Ladakh.#LokSabhaElections2024 pic.twitter.com/RqsSGhagga
— ANI (@ANI) May 2, 2024
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BJP fields Hemant Vishnu Savara as its candidate from Palghar (Maharashtra). #LokSabhaElections2024 pic.twitter.com/Pa0Jn8Or9h
— ANI (@ANI) May 2, 2024
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#WATCH | Union Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah holds organizational meeting with party leaders in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow.
— ANI (@ANI) May 2, 2024
CM Yogi Adityanath and Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak are also present. pic.twitter.com/Lan8Fpu3za
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#WATCH | Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh: While addressing a public rally, BJP National President JP Nadda says, "Today, India is at the 5th position in the world economy. Under the leadership of PM Modi, India will soon become 3rd biggest economy in the world... The mobile phones you… pic.twitter.com/GEpG6DS8Qj
— ANI (@ANI) May 2, 2024
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