Lok Sabha Elections 2019 LIVE: BJP releases 2nd\, 3rd list of candidates; Sambit Patra to contest from Puri

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 LIVE: BJP releases 2nd, 3rd list of candidates; Sambit Patra to contest from Puri

The party announced candidates for a total of 23 seats in Andhra Pradesh; one seat in Assam; six seats in Maharashtra; one in Meghalaya; and five seats in Odisha.

The Lok Sabha elections 2019 have been scheduled to start from April 11 and will go on till May 19.

A day after releasing its first list of 184 candidates, the Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its 2nd and 3rd lists of candidates with 1 and 36 candidates, respectively, for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections 2019. The party announced candidates for a total of 23 seats in Andhra Pradesh; one seat in Assam; six seats in Maharashtra; one in Meghalaya; and five seats in Odisha. Some big names like Lal Krishna Advani and BC Khanduri were denied ticket in the party's first list. Besides, the Congress also released its seventh list of its 35 candidates for and shifted Uttar Pradesh state unit chief Raj Babbar from Moradabad to Fatehpur Sikri.

The Lok Sabha elections 2019 have been scheduled to start from April 11 and will go on till May 19. With little time left to woo voters, parties have increased their activities, with prominent leaders holding several rallies every day. From public rallies to workers' meetings, big leaders of the national as well as state parties are leaving no stone unturned to ensure victory in the polls.

BusinessToday.In brings complete timeline of all the updates related to the General Elections 2019 through our blog.

11.45am: Lok Janshakti Party's Chirag Paswan to contest from Jamui. Ramkirpal Yadav to contest from Patliputra, RK Singh from Arrah, Aswani Choubey from Buxar, Radha Mohan Singh from East Champaran, Rajiv Pratap Rudy from Saran, reports ANI.

11.30am: Ravi Shankar Prasad will be the BJP's candidate from Patna Sahib. Nawada MP, Giriraj Singh, will contest from Begusarai, reports ANI.

 

11.10am: Prominent among those who are denied re-nomination is Dindori MP Harishchandra Chavan, who has been representing the tribal-dominated seat since 2009, reported PTI. This time, the party has reposed faith inNCP turncoat Bharti Pawar, who had lost to Chavan in 2014 polls by a hugemargin. The BJP has given ticket to KanchanKul, wife of Daundlegislator RahulKul,from Baramati seat in Pune district against Sule, daughter of Sharad Pawar.Rahul Kul is the MLA of Rashtriya Samaj Paksh, an alliance partner of the BJPin Maharashtra.

10.45am: The BJP has replaced four sitting MPs in Maharashtra in its third list of six candidates from the state, and has fielded a woman candidate from Baramati, the bastion of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, against sitting MP Supriya Sule, reports PTI. With six candidates from Maharashtra, the BJP has so far announced names of 22 candidates. The saffron party is contesting 25 out of total 48 seats in alliance with the Shiv Sena, which will fight on rest of the seats. The BJP had won 22 of the 24 Lok Sabha seats that it contested from Maharashtra in 2014.

 

10.18am: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy Friday said his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy and nephew Prajwal Revanna were not contesting the Lok Sabha polls for "fashion", but for the sake for the people, reported PTI. Conceding that that there were "small" issues between alliance partners Congress and JD(S) which would be resolved, he said both parties will follow "coalition dharma"."...on the basis of our (Kumaraswamy and Revanna) work, from our family again two young powers are in the fray,they are not contesting for fashion," Kumaraswamy said.

10.11am: The Assam unit of National People's Party (NPP) releases its first list of candidates.

10.02am: Congress leader Jitin Prasada on reports that he is in touch with the BJP.

9.49am: The Congress party on Friday accused BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa of paying over Rs 1,800 crore to the BJP's national leaders during the BJP's government in the state. The party alleged that Yeddyurappa's signatures were found on every page of the diary. Citing a report by the Caravan Magazine, Congress spokesperson Surjewala said the BJP leader had recorded these alleged payouts, written in Kannada, in a diary of a Karnataka MLA in 2009. Yeddyurappa has denied the charge, saying the report was planted by the Congress to malign his party's image.Read the full story here.

9.35am: In its bid to limit election spending, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has imposed strict limits on the expenditure incurred by candidates  on their election campaign. Read the full story here.

9.20am: Congress President Rahul Gandhi will hold a rally in Purnia district of Bihar on Saturday as part of his election campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He will also hold another political rally in West Benga's Malda district.

 

9.15am: The BJP may also release its fourth list of candidates today.

 

9.00am: Girish Bapat to contest from Pune (Maharashtra), Sambit Patra to contest from Puri (Odisha).

 

8.00am: Alist of the candidates given the BJP ticket for the Lok Sabha elections 2019 so far.

 

7.00am: The Congress released its third list of 35 candidates on Friday. The party has nominated Imran Pratapgarhiya from Moradabad where Babbar's candidature was announced earlier. The party fielded former Union Minister Renuka Chowdhury from Khammam in Telangana. The party also fielded Vikramaditya Singh, the son of former Union Minister Karan Singh, from Udhampur constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.

 

Edited by Manoj Sharma