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The BJP on Monday won its first seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections unopposed as Congress Surat candidate Nilesh Kumbhani was disqualified owing to alleged discrepancies in his nomination papers, while eight other nominees withdrew from the fray. It is rare for a Lok Sabha seat to be won unopposed, and the first such win for the BJP.
With no elected MP in Lok Sabha and its vote share this general election down to 2.04%, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the only national-level Dalit party in the country, could lose its national status once the Election Commission carries out its customary review post general elections, The Indian Express has learned.
With Himachal Pradesh’s four Lok Sabha seats voting in the last phase on June 1, Anand Sharma, the Congress candidate from Kangra, had written to the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) asking for permission to vote via postal ballot from Dharamshala, instead of Shimla, where he is enrolled as an elector.
The Returning Officer (RO) for the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency on Wednesday rejected comedian Shyam Rangeela’s nomination on the grounds that it was “incomplete”.
A former diplomat now firmly settled into his role as a politician, Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri has been busy campaigning for the BJP across the country. In an interview to The Indian Express, he speaks about the war of words between the BJP and Congress, and the reason for the BJP’s confidence about “400-plus seats”.
Amritpal Singh, the head of the Khalistani outfit Waris Punjab De, who has been lodged in a jail in Assam since April 2023, has announced his intention to contest the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab, to be held on June 1. On April 26, Singh’s parents confirmed that their son will contest the polls from the Khadoor Sahib seat.
With barely three days to go for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections, some Opposition leaders’ helicopters have been in the news as they have been searched by authorities in the last few days. Helicopters are often used by politicians to hop from one place to another during their poll campaigning.
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani recently became an elector from her Lok Sabha constituency, Amethi. While the BJP is trying to make a big point of this, as well as the fact that Irani now owns a house in Amethi, a candidate is not required to be a voter or a resident of a constituency from where he or she is contesting under election rules.