Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE: Nakul Nath, Vaibhav Gehlot Among 40 Names Finalised By Congress; BJP Decides 90 More Names, Says Report – News18

Election 2024 LIVE: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held its second Central Election Committee meeting at its headquarters in Delhi on Monday night, and reportedly finalising the names of around 90 candidates across seven states for the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2024, as per a report by Times of India. The saffron party has so far named candidates for 195 seats spread across 16 states and two Union territories. Senior party leaders also held talks with alliance partners in Haryana and Andhra Pradesh to finalise seat-sharing agreements.

Meanwhile, the top Congress leadership also cleared the names of about 40 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. As per sources, the party has decided to field former chief minister Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath once again from Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara and Ashok Gehlot’s son Vaibhav from Jalore in Rajasthan. Both Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot are also unlikely to contest, with the former’s son entering the poll fray and the latter having responsibility of Chhattisgarh as AICC general secretary, the sources added. Among the seats that were discussed at the meeting included 14 each from Rajasthan, Assam and Gujarat, 16 from Madhya Pradesh and five from Uttarakhand, besides one from Union Territory of Daman and Diu.