</p></div>7 Muslims among BSP’s 25 candidates in UP — a likely challenge for SP-Congress & boost for BJP2024-03-25T08:31:39+00:002024-03-25T08:31:39+00:00https://indiamirror.net/index.php/en/component/k2/item/3964-7-muslims-among-bsp-s-25-candidates-in-up-a-likely-challenge-for-sp-congress-boost-for-bjpSuper Userkaazmi2012@gmail.com<div class="K2FeedIntroText"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src="https://indiamirror.net/images/Election-2024/AA1jvkUJ.jpg" alt="" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Lucknow: </strong>The BSP Sunday came out with two lists of a total 25 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. In its first list, of the 16 candidates declared, nearly half — seven — are Muslims, a move that’s likely to hurt the prospects of the Congress-SP opposition alliance in the state and help the BJP.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Apart from the Muslim candidates, the Mayawati-led party, in its first list, fielded four candidates from the upper caste, two from the OBC community, and three SC candidates from reserved seats.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The BSP’s seven Muslim candidates include Majid Ali from Saharanpur, Zeeshan Khan from Rampur, Shaulat Ali from Sambhal, Irfan Saifi from Moradabad, Mujahid Hussain from Amroha, Abid Ali from Aonla and Anis Ahmad Khan from Pilibhit.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Of these seats, the SP-Congress alliance has declared Muslim candidates on four — Saharanpur, Sambhal, Moradabad and Amroha.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Its two OBC faces include Dara Singh Prajapati from Muzaffarnagar constituency and Jat candidate Vijendra Singh from Bijnor.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The party also fielded four upper caste candidates — Shripal Singh, Rajendra Solanki, Praveen Bansal and Devvrat Tyagi — from Kairana, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Baghpat and Meerut, respectively.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">From the reserved seats of Nagina, Shahjahanpur and Bulandshahr, it has declared Surendra Pal, Dodram Verma and Girish Jatav as its candidates, respectively.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The party has replaced its sitting MPs in Saharanpur, Nagina and Bijnor, while its Amroha MP has already switched to the Congress.</p>
<p class="continue-read-break" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The decision comes in the <a href="https://theprint.in/politics/bsp-faces-exodus-as-its-mps-seek-greener-pastures-amid-partys-suicidal-ekla-chalo-policy-for-2024/1987427/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}">backdrop</a> of BSP’s sitting Bijnor MP Malook Nagar making headlines for his meeting with Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leaders and Saharanpur MP Haji Fazlur Rehman’s announcement that he won’t fight elections but will support any candidate challenging the BJP. Moreover, the party had expelled its Amroha MP Danish Ali, who was declared as the Congress candidate for the same seat Saturday.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Later in the evening, the BSP declared its second list of nine more candidates. This includes candidates for Mathura, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Kanpur, Akbarpur and four reserved seats, including Hathras, Agra, Etawa and Jalaun.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">It has fielded Hembabu Dhangar from Hathras, Pooja Amrohi from Agra, Sarika Singh Baghel from Etawah and Suresh Chandra Gautam from Jalaun.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Baghel is a former MP from Hathras who became the youngest woman MP from the RLD in 2009. She subsequently joined the SP before joining the BJP in 2019. She has now been fielded by the BSP from Etawah.</p>
<p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Amrohi is the daughter of Satya Behan, a prominent Congress leader who has served as a Rajya Sabha member in the past. A humanities graduate from Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College, Amrohi is the wife of a businessman and the daughter-in-law of a former Haryana DGP.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Gautam, who retired as an engineer from the UP government, has been associated with the BSP since 1983 and became a convenor of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF) in 1989. He later became the president of the SC/ST employees welfare samiti of state electricity corporation and led an agitation during the implementation of the Mandal commission.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Dhangar is an Agra-based software engineer and son of an old party horse Jagdish Prasad Dhangar who was associated with party founder Kanshi Ram during the early days of the BSP. From the other five seats, BSP has fielded upper caste candidates, including three Brahmins, a Vaishya and a Rajput.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">From Mathura, the BSP has fielded journalist and advocate Kamalkant Upmanyu while Ram Niwas Sharma, a former block head from the area, has been fielded from Fatehpur Sikri. Sharma had fought the assembly poll from Fatehpur Sikri in 1993 on an SP ticket but lost and later distanced himself from politics after BSP denied him a ticket in 2012 assembly polls.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Businessman and advocate Satendra Jain Solly is the BSP’s candidate for Firozabad. Jain who belongs to the Vaishya caste, is a first timer who is known in the area for campaigning to raise voice against open drains and water-logging of roads.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">From the Kanpur seat, BSP has fielded Kuldeep Bhadauria, and for Akbarpur seat of Kanpur Dehat, it has named Rajendra Kumar Dwivedi. Bhadauria, who began his political journey participating in students politics, has served as the general secretary of the students’ union of the DAV College in the area. He owns a business and is an advocate too. Meanwhile, Dwivedi, a businessman, has been associated with the BSP for the past two decades.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}"><strong>Also read:</strong> <a href="https://theprint.in/politics/sbsp-chief-a-serial-turncoat-a-record-holding-bjp-mla-rlds-sc-face-ups-4-new-cabinet-ministers/1990388/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}">SBSP chief, a serial turncoat, a record-holding BJP MLA & RLD’s SC face — UP’s 4 new cabinet ministers</a></p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">While the Congress Saturday declared former BSP leaders Imran Masood and Danish Ali as its candidates from Saharanpur and Amroha, respectively, the SP Sunday declared sitting Lok Sabha MP S.T. Hasan as its candidate from Moradabad. The Akhilesh-Yadav-led party has already declared Shafiqur Rehman Barq’s grandson Zia-ur Rehman as its candidate from Sambhal.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Yadav had recently met Azam Khan, senior SP leader and the party’s prominent figure in the Muslim community, at Sitapur jail. Party insiders reveal that discussions were held regarding potential candidates for the Rampur constituency.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Out of the 16 candidates revealed by the BSP Sunday, the SP-Congress alliance has already disclosed candidates for the constituencies of Amroha, Saharanpur, Sambhal, Moradabad, Nagina, Pilibhit, Aonla, Shahjahanpur, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Baghpat, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, and Kairana.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">However, the alliance is yet to finalise candidates for Rampur and Bulandshahr constituencies, which have been allocated to the SP and Congress, respectively.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Among the seven Muslim candidates declared by the BSP so far, four will fight SP-Congress alliance candidates from the same community on the seats of Amroha, Moradabad, Sambhal and Saharanpur.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Amroha will see Congress’ Danish Ali fight Mujahid Hussain of the BSP, in Moradabad, BSP’s Irfan Saifi will be up against SP’s sitting MP S.T. Hasan, while in Saharanpur, the fight will be between Congress’s Imran Masood and BSP’s Majid Ali. In Sambhal, BSP’s Shaulat Ali will fight SP’s Zia -ur Rehman Barq.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">All four of these seats had gone to the SP-BSP alliance when the two parties had tied up in the 2019 general elections.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">According to analysts, the BSP has banked on several new faces due to a shortage of good candidates. Moreover, they add, by fielding Muslims candidates, its attempt will be to get the community on its side in the Muslim-dominated seats which may harm the SP-Congress alliance.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">“Mayawati has always fielded more Muslims than anyone else. Wherever Muslims are in majority, both SP and BSP want to field Muslim candidates and take advantage of the vote share. However, this usually results in counter-polarisation of votes, which might end up helping the BJP on such seats,” Mirza Asmer Beg, professor of political science at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) told ThePrint.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Beg noted that in 2019, the SP and the BSP were fighting in alliance and won 15 seats in total, of which, both the BSP and SP-RLD alliance have fielded Muslim candidates on four.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">“While earlier the parties were allies, they are now fighting as foes. For the BSP, defeating SP becomes the main target and it wouldn’t mind if the BJP, which is a national level party, goes on to win. The parties have had historical background of poaching each other’s constituency, whether it is Muslims which are generally known to be favouring the SP or the OBCs in their heydays, or even the SCs. This is more likely to help the BJP given the charged electoral atmosphere which is apparently in favour of BJP due to communal atmosphere and the charisma of being in power at the Centre,” he said.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Beg added that the BSP fielding lesser-known faces like Shripal Singh, Rajendra Solanki, Praveen Bansal, Abid Ali, Shaulat Ali, Devvrat Tyagi, also shows that it is facing shortage of candidates as many are not willing to fight for the party any more.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">“There may be financial reasons behind it given that fighting a Lok Sabha election entails a huge cost and also because established politicians don’t want to fight to lose given the BSP’s declining political fortunes. Moreover, it reflects that Mayawati has developed a trust deficit and is hence, fielding lesser-known candidates,” he said.</p>
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<p><strong>Lucknow: </strong>The BSP Sunday came out with two lists of a total 25 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. In its first list, of the 16 candidates declared, nearly half — seven — are Muslims, a move that’s likely to hurt the prospects of the Congress-SP opposition alliance in the state and help the BJP.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Apart from the Muslim candidates, the Mayawati-led party, in its first list, fielded four candidates from the upper caste, two from the OBC community, and three SC candidates from reserved seats.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The BSP’s seven Muslim candidates include Majid Ali from Saharanpur, Zeeshan Khan from Rampur, Shaulat Ali from Sambhal, Irfan Saifi from Moradabad, Mujahid Hussain from Amroha, Abid Ali from Aonla and Anis Ahmad Khan from Pilibhit.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Of these seats, the SP-Congress alliance has declared Muslim candidates on four — Saharanpur, Sambhal, Moradabad and Amroha.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Its two OBC faces include Dara Singh Prajapati from Muzaffarnagar constituency and Jat candidate Vijendra Singh from Bijnor.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The party also fielded four upper caste candidates — Shripal Singh, Rajendra Solanki, Praveen Bansal and Devvrat Tyagi — from Kairana, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Baghpat and Meerut, respectively.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">From the reserved seats of Nagina, Shahjahanpur and Bulandshahr, it has declared Surendra Pal, Dodram Verma and Girish Jatav as its candidates, respectively.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The party has replaced its sitting MPs in Saharanpur, Nagina and Bijnor, while its Amroha MP has already switched to the Congress.</p>
<p class="continue-read-break" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The decision comes in the <a href="https://theprint.in/politics/bsp-faces-exodus-as-its-mps-seek-greener-pastures-amid-partys-suicidal-ekla-chalo-policy-for-2024/1987427/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}">backdrop</a> of BSP’s sitting Bijnor MP Malook Nagar making headlines for his meeting with Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leaders and Saharanpur MP Haji Fazlur Rehman’s announcement that he won’t fight elections but will support any candidate challenging the BJP. Moreover, the party had expelled its Amroha MP Danish Ali, who was declared as the Congress candidate for the same seat Saturday.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Later in the evening, the BSP declared its second list of nine more candidates. This includes candidates for Mathura, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Kanpur, Akbarpur and four reserved seats, including Hathras, Agra, Etawa and Jalaun.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">It has fielded Hembabu Dhangar from Hathras, Pooja Amrohi from Agra, Sarika Singh Baghel from Etawah and Suresh Chandra Gautam from Jalaun.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Baghel is a former MP from Hathras who became the youngest woman MP from the RLD in 2009. She subsequently joined the SP before joining the BJP in 2019. She has now been fielded by the BSP from Etawah.</p>
<p class="" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Amrohi is the daughter of Satya Behan, a prominent Congress leader who has served as a Rajya Sabha member in the past. A humanities graduate from Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College, Amrohi is the wife of a businessman and the daughter-in-law of a former Haryana DGP.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Gautam, who retired as an engineer from the UP government, has been associated with the BSP since 1983 and became a convenor of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF) in 1989. He later became the president of the SC/ST employees welfare samiti of state electricity corporation and led an agitation during the implementation of the Mandal commission.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Dhangar is an Agra-based software engineer and son of an old party horse Jagdish Prasad Dhangar who was associated with party founder Kanshi Ram during the early days of the BSP. From the other five seats, BSP has fielded upper caste candidates, including three Brahmins, a Vaishya and a Rajput.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">From Mathura, the BSP has fielded journalist and advocate Kamalkant Upmanyu while Ram Niwas Sharma, a former block head from the area, has been fielded from Fatehpur Sikri. Sharma had fought the assembly poll from Fatehpur Sikri in 1993 on an SP ticket but lost and later distanced himself from politics after BSP denied him a ticket in 2012 assembly polls.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Businessman and advocate Satendra Jain Solly is the BSP’s candidate for Firozabad. Jain who belongs to the Vaishya caste, is a first timer who is known in the area for campaigning to raise voice against open drains and water-logging of roads.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">From the Kanpur seat, BSP has fielded Kuldeep Bhadauria, and for Akbarpur seat of Kanpur Dehat, it has named Rajendra Kumar Dwivedi. Bhadauria, who began his political journey participating in students politics, has served as the general secretary of the students’ union of the DAV College in the area. He owns a business and is an advocate too. Meanwhile, Dwivedi, a businessman, has been associated with the BSP for the past two decades.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}"><strong>Also read:</strong> <a href="https://theprint.in/politics/sbsp-chief-a-serial-turncoat-a-record-holding-bjp-mla-rlds-sc-face-ups-4-new-cabinet-ministers/1990388/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}">SBSP chief, a serial turncoat, a record-holding BJP MLA & RLD’s SC face — UP’s 4 new cabinet ministers</a></p>
<h3 class="article-sub-heading"><strong>BSP & SP-Congress fight on 4 seats</strong></h3>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">While the Congress Saturday declared former BSP leaders Imran Masood and Danish Ali as its candidates from Saharanpur and Amroha, respectively, the SP Sunday declared sitting Lok Sabha MP S.T. Hasan as its candidate from Moradabad. The Akhilesh-Yadav-led party has already declared Shafiqur Rehman Barq’s grandson Zia-ur Rehman as its candidate from Sambhal.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Yadav had recently met Azam Khan, senior SP leader and the party’s prominent figure in the Muslim community, at Sitapur jail. Party insiders reveal that discussions were held regarding potential candidates for the Rampur constituency.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Out of the 16 candidates revealed by the BSP Sunday, the SP-Congress alliance has already disclosed candidates for the constituencies of Amroha, Saharanpur, Sambhal, Moradabad, Nagina, Pilibhit, Aonla, Shahjahanpur, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Baghpat, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, and Kairana.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">However, the alliance is yet to finalise candidates for Rampur and Bulandshahr constituencies, which have been allocated to the SP and Congress, respectively.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Among the seven Muslim candidates declared by the BSP so far, four will fight SP-Congress alliance candidates from the same community on the seats of Amroha, Moradabad, Sambhal and Saharanpur.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Amroha will see Congress’ Danish Ali fight Mujahid Hussain of the BSP, in Moradabad, BSP’s Irfan Saifi will be up against SP’s sitting MP S.T. Hasan, while in Saharanpur, the fight will be between Congress’s Imran Masood and BSP’s Majid Ali. In Sambhal, BSP’s Shaulat Ali will fight SP’s Zia -ur Rehman Barq.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">All four of these seats had gone to the SP-BSP alliance when the two parties had tied up in the 2019 general elections.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">According to analysts, the BSP has banked on several new faces due to a shortage of good candidates. Moreover, they add, by fielding Muslims candidates, its attempt will be to get the community on its side in the Muslim-dominated seats which may harm the SP-Congress alliance.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">“Mayawati has always fielded more Muslims than anyone else. Wherever Muslims are in majority, both SP and BSP want to field Muslim candidates and take advantage of the vote share. However, this usually results in counter-polarisation of votes, which might end up helping the BJP on such seats,” Mirza Asmer Beg, professor of political science at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) told ThePrint.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Beg noted that in 2019, the SP and the BSP were fighting in alliance and won 15 seats in total, of which, both the BSP and SP-RLD alliance have fielded Muslim candidates on four.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">“While earlier the parties were allies, they are now fighting as foes. For the BSP, defeating SP becomes the main target and it wouldn’t mind if the BJP, which is a national level party, goes on to win. The parties have had historical background of poaching each other’s constituency, whether it is Muslims which are generally known to be favouring the SP or the OBCs in their heydays, or even the SCs. This is more likely to help the BJP given the charged electoral atmosphere which is apparently in favour of BJP due to communal atmosphere and the charisma of being in power at the Centre,” he said.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Beg added that the BSP fielding lesser-known faces like Shripal Singh, Rajendra Solanki, Praveen Bansal, Abid Ali, Shaulat Ali, Devvrat Tyagi, also shows that it is facing shortage of candidates as many are not willing to fight for the party any more.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">“There may be financial reasons behind it given that fighting a Lok Sabha election entails a huge cost and also because established politicians don’t want to fight to lose given the BSP’s declining political fortunes. Moreover, it reflects that Mayawati has developed a trust deficit and is hence, fielding lesser-known candidates,” he said.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}"><span class="dropcap-element-slot">T</span>he Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Tuesday released the party's manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 at its AICC headquarters in New Delhi.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the Congress Working Committee (CWC) deliberated thoroughly on the Congress Manifesto and added that the five pillars of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra - Kisan Nyay, Yuva Nyay, Naari Nyay, Shramik Nyay and Hissedari Nyay have 5 guarantees each.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The CWC meeting was attended by Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, MP Rahul Gandhi, and party leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal and P Chidambaram, among other senior leaders.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">AICC General Secretary Jairam Ramesh stated on Monday that the CWC, Congress' top-decision making body would discuss the party's manifesto. He stated that the grand old party is all set to fight the general elections on the issues of 'five nyay.' </p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">These include 'Bhagidari Nyay', 'Kisan Nyay', 'Nari Nyay', 'Shramik Nyay' and 'Yuva Nyay' and come with 25 guarantees, five for each nyay. These five points have already been announced by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former president Rahul Gandhi.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Jairam further remarked that these guarantees are given by the Congress party and not just a single person. His remark was a jibe at PM Modi who has been claiming to provide 'Modi ki gurantee,' news agency PTI reported.</p>
<p class="continue-read-break" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Congress' Central Election Committee, chaired by Mallikarjun Kharge, is also slated to release a list of its candidates for the remaining 18 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh today.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">So far the party has announced a total of 82 candidates in two different lists. In its first list Congress announced 39 of its candidates, while in the second one it named 43 of its candidates.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The Election Commission on Saturday had announced the schedule of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024. As per the schedule, the general elections will begin from April 19, 2024 and will be conducted across seven phases.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}"><span class="dropcap-element-slot">T</span>he Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Tuesday released the party's manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 at its AICC headquarters in New Delhi.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The CWC meeting was attended by Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, MP Rahul Gandhi, and party leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal and P Chidambaram, among other senior leaders.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">AICC General Secretary Jairam Ramesh stated on Monday that the CWC, Congress' top-decision making body would discuss the party's manifesto. He stated that the grand old party is all set to fight the general elections on the issues of 'five nyay.' </p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">These include 'Bhagidari Nyay', 'Kisan Nyay', 'Nari Nyay', 'Shramik Nyay' and 'Yuva Nyay' and come with 25 guarantees, five for each nyay. These five points have already been announced by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former president Rahul Gandhi.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Jairam further remarked that these guarantees are given by the Congress party and not just a single person. His remark was a jibe at PM Modi who has been claiming to provide 'Modi ki gurantee,' news agency PTI reported.</p>
<p class="continue-read-break" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Congress' Central Election Committee, chaired by Mallikarjun Kharge, is also slated to release a list of its candidates for the remaining 18 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh today.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">So far the party has announced a total of 82 candidates in two different lists. In its first list Congress announced 39 of its candidates, while in the second one it named 43 of its candidates.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The Election Commission on Saturday had announced the schedule of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024. As per the schedule, the general elections will begin from April 19, 2024 and will be conducted across seven phases.</p>
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<p><strong>Bhubaneswar:</strong> The <strong>Election Commission</strong> of India (ECI) has announced the schedule for the upcoming <strong>Lok Sabha Elections</strong> on Saturday.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, and newly appointed Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar will address the media at around 3 pm.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">"Press conference by Election Commission to announce schedule for general elections 2024 & some state assemblies will be held at 3pm tomorrow ie March 16. It will livestreamed on social media platforms of the ECI," it said.</p>
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<li data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Issue of notification: April 18, 26, 29, May 7</li>
<li data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Last Date Of Notification: April 25, May 3, 6, 14</li>
<li data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Scrutiny Of Nomination: April 26, May 4, 7, 15</li>
<li class="continue-read-break" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Last Date Of Withdrawal Of Candidature: April 29, May 6, 9, 17</li>
<li data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Date Of Poll: May 13, 20, 25, June 1</li>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The Lok Sabha term will end on June 16 and a new House must be constituted before the end of the term. Notably, the term of the assemblies is also going to end in states such as Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha in June. In 2019, the Election Commission announced the schedule on March 10. The seven-phased voting was conducted from April 11 to May 19. The results of the general elections were declared on May 23 in which the BJP clinched the victory with a thumping majority</p>
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<p><strong>Bhubaneswar:</strong> The <strong>Election Commission</strong> of India (ECI) has announced the schedule for the upcoming <strong>Lok Sabha Elections</strong> on Saturday.</p>
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<h2 class="article-sub-heading">Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Dates Announcement: How to watch EC's Media Briefing</h2>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, and newly appointed Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar will address the media at around 3 pm.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">"Press conference by Election Commission to announce schedule for general elections 2024 & some state assemblies will be held at 3pm tomorrow ie March 16. It will livestreamed on social media platforms of the ECI," it said.</p>
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<li data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Issue of notification: April 18, 26, 29, May 7</li>
<li data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Last Date Of Notification: April 25, May 3, 6, 14</li>
<li data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Scrutiny Of Nomination: April 26, May 4, 7, 15</li>
<li class="continue-read-break" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Last Date Of Withdrawal Of Candidature: April 29, May 6, 9, 17</li>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The Lok Sabha term will end on June 16 and a new House must be constituted before the end of the term. Notably, the term of the assemblies is also going to end in states such as Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha in June. In 2019, the Election Commission announced the schedule on March 10. The seven-phased voting was conducted from April 11 to May 19. The results of the general elections were declared on May 23 in which the BJP clinched the victory with a thumping majority</p>
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<p><span class="dropcap-element-slot">H</span>ours before the announcement of the schedule for the assembly and general elections in Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday announced the list of candidates for all 175 assembly seats and 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Jagan released the list after paying floral tributes to his father and former chief minister late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy at his ‘samadhi’ at Idupulupaya in Kadapa district in the afternoon.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Dalit MP from Bapatla Nandigam Suresh read out the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha elections while Revenue Minister D Prasada Rao disclosed the names of candidates for the assembly polls.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The prominent names contesting the Lok Sabha elections include party general secretary V Vijay Sai Reddy from Nellore, former MP Botsa Jhansi Laxmi from Visakhapatnam, Y S Avinash Reddy from Kadapa, P V Mithun Reddy from Rajampet, Kesineni Srinivas (Nani) from Vijayawada and P Anil Kumar Yadav from Narsaraopet.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Among the candidates for 175 assembly constituencies, the YSRCP president dropped as many as 32 sitting MLAs, while reshuffling many of them, shifting some of them to Lok Sabha constituencies and others to adjacent assembly.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">In 2019 elections, the YSRCP won 151 out of 175 assembly seats and 22 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats, with a vote share of 49.6%.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Giving an analysis of the candidates and their profiles, a statement from YSRCP said that out of total 200 candidates for state assembly and Lok Sabha seats, as many as 50 candidates are first time contestants.</p>
<p class="continue-read-break" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Among the total number of seats, 84 assembly seats and 16 MP seats have been given to OBC, SC, ST and minority categories. Among the MLA candidates, there are 29 SCs, seven STs, 48 OBCs, seven minorities and 91 OCs. In all, 19 women were given tickets in all these categories.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Among the contestants for 25 Lok Sabha seats, there are four SCs, one ST, 11 OBCs and nine OCs. In all, five women were given the tickets.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The selected candidates include 17 doctors, 15 lawyers, 34 engineers, five teachers, two retired civil servants, one retired defence employee and a journalist.</p>
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<p><span class="dropcap-element-slot">H</span>ours before the announcement of the schedule for the assembly and general elections in Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday announced the list of candidates for all 175 assembly seats and 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.</p>
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<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Jagan released the list after paying floral tributes to his father and former chief minister late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy at his ‘samadhi’ at Idupulupaya in Kadapa district in the afternoon.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Dalit MP from Bapatla Nandigam Suresh read out the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha elections while Revenue Minister D Prasada Rao disclosed the names of candidates for the assembly polls.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The prominent names contesting the Lok Sabha elections include party general secretary V Vijay Sai Reddy from Nellore, former MP Botsa Jhansi Laxmi from Visakhapatnam, Y S Avinash Reddy from Kadapa, P V Mithun Reddy from Rajampet, Kesineni Srinivas (Nani) from Vijayawada and P Anil Kumar Yadav from Narsaraopet.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Among the candidates for 175 assembly constituencies, the YSRCP president dropped as many as 32 sitting MLAs, while reshuffling many of them, shifting some of them to Lok Sabha constituencies and others to adjacent assembly.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">In 2019 elections, the YSRCP won 151 out of 175 assembly seats and 22 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats, with a vote share of 49.6%.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Giving an analysis of the candidates and their profiles, a statement from YSRCP said that out of total 200 candidates for state assembly and Lok Sabha seats, as many as 50 candidates are first time contestants.</p>
<p class="continue-read-break" data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Among the total number of seats, 84 assembly seats and 16 MP seats have been given to OBC, SC, ST and minority categories. Among the MLA candidates, there are 29 SCs, seven STs, 48 OBCs, seven minorities and 91 OCs. In all, 19 women were given tickets in all these categories.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">Among the contestants for 25 Lok Sabha seats, there are four SCs, one ST, 11 OBCs and nine OCs. In all, five women were given the tickets.</p>
<p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">The selected candidates include 17 doctors, 15 lawyers, 34 engineers, five teachers, two retired civil servants, one retired defence employee and a journalist.</p>
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