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Union Minister, first-time candidates in BJP’s J&K list

Srinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday re-nominated both its sitting MPs from the Jammu region while fielding three first-time candidates from the Kashmir Valley. The party’s first list of 184 candidates, released in Delhi by senior BJP leader J.P. Nadda, includes Union Minister Jitendra Singh and Jugal Kishore Sharma who will be seeking re-election […]

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Amit Shah to contest from Gandhinagar, eases Advani out

Ahmedabad: Setting at rest all speculations, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced that its national president Amit Shah would contest the Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar, in place of veteran leader and incumbent MP L.K. Advani. Ninety-one-year-old Advani who represented the Gandhinagar seat for six terms, except for 1996, won the 2014 elections […]

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BJP ignores Dattatreya for Secunderabad constituency

Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party has ignored its senior leader and sitting MP Bandaru Dattatreya for Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency and instead fielded G. Kishan Reddy. Dattatreya, also a former union minister, did not figure in the list of candidates announced by the BJP. Secunderabad is among 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana for which […]