North India Statesman
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Tickets of three more MPs were canceled in the sixth list of BJP. Till now BJP has removed a total of 103 MPs including ten ministers. In the 2019 elections, the party gave tickets to 119 MPs. This time, BJP has sidelined not only the less popular MPs but also the MPs who created controversy with their controversial statements. These include leaders like Bhopal MP Sadhvi Pragya, who described Godse as great, Pravesh Verma, who commented against a particular community, Ramesh Bidhuri, who commented against a minority community MP in Parliament, and Varun Gandhi, who targeted the party leadership.
called in gujarat
The tickets of maximum number of MPs have been canceled in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state Gujarat. BJP, which had made a clean sweep here in the last elections, has been forced to field new faces on 14 out of 26 seats. Six out of seven MPs in Delhi and nine MPs included in the fifth list in Uttar Pradesh failed to get tickets again. Four MPs from Odisha and three each from Bihar, Karnataka and Jharkhand have been removed. When the first list of 195 candidates was released, it once seemed that the party would have a big heart for the MPs. Tickets of 33 MPs were canceled in the first list. Then all 41 MPs of UP were successful in getting tickets.
Union Minister also on target…
In the BJP list released on Tuesday, new faces have been given a chance on two seats in Rajasthan and one seat in Inner Manipur. In Karauli-Dholpur seat, Indudevi Jatav was given the ticket in place of Manoj Rajoria, in Dausa, Kanhaiyalal Meena was given the ticket in place of Jaskaur Meena and Basant Kumar Singh was given the ticket in place of Union Minister Rajkumar Singh. Inner Manipur seat. The party has so far fielded 405 candidates. 35 candidates are yet to be announced. Most of these are from UP. In such a situation, it will be interesting to see whether the party is able to break the record of the last election in terms of cutting tickets or not.
