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New Delhi: On 2 March, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its first list of 195 candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha election in which 34 sitting MPs were dropped..
The list also indicates that Sufi singer Hans Raj Hans, who won from North West Delhi in 2019, is likely to be denied a ticket this time..
The other MPs who have been replaced are former Union health minister Harsh Vardhan (Chandni Chowk), Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi (New Delhi), cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir (East Delhi), former Delhi CM Sahib Singh Vermas son and two-time MP Parvesh Verma (West Delhi), and Ramesh Bidhuri (South Delhi)...
A senior Delhi BJP leader told ThePrint that the Delhi assembly polls, which are scheduled in February, were just a few months away after the Lok Sabha election and that Prime Minister Modis biggest worry is Arvind Kejriwal...
BJP sources said that the party has denied tickets to more sitting MPs in those states where it faces a challenge like Chhattisgarh where the Congress is not so weak; Assam, where there is a multi-party alliance; and Delhi, where Kejriwals support is intact...
