BJP Candidate List 2024 for Delhi Lok Sabha Elections: Sushma Swaraj's daughter Bansuri to contest from New Delhi

BJP Candidate List 2024 for Lok Sabha Elections, BJP Delhi Candidates List 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its first lit of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024. The first list has five candidates from Delhi.

Ramesh Bidhuri, Parvesh Verma, Meenakshi Lekhi and Harsh Vardhan have been dropped from Delhi Lok Sabha seats this time. Earlier, former Indian cricketer and MP Gautam Gambhir asked BJP chief JP Nadda to relieve him of his political duties.

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BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawde said that Praveen Khandelwal will be the party's candidate from Chandni Chowk, Manoj Tiwari from North East Delhi, Kamaljeet Sehrawat from West Delhi, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from South Delhi and Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi.

Praveen Khandelwal, a Delhi-based businessman and the founder of Confederation of All India Traders, and Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of late BJP leader and former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, are making their electoral debut.

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Manoj Tiwari, singer and actor -- serving as a Member of Parliament from North East Delhi, had won the seat two times in 2014 and 2019 elections. Ramvir Singh Bidhuri is a sitting MLA from the Badarpur Assembly constituency.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced the names of four candidates for Delhi.

The Delhi-ruling AAP has fielded Kuldeep Kumar from East Delhi, Somnath Bharti from New Delhi, Sahiram Pehelwan from South Delhi, and Mahabal Mishra from West Delhi.

Three of the four candidates announced by the AAP are currently serving as MLAs. Kumar is the legislator from Kondli, Bharti from Malviya Nagar and Sahiram Pehelwan from Tughlakabad. Mishra, a former Congress MP from West Delhi and a three-time MLA from Dwarka Assembly constituency, joined the AAP in 2022.

With IANS inputs