Lok Sabha Election 2024 Section 2 Key Candidates: Within the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Section 2 polling will see outstanding candidates vying for victory throughout varied states in India. Based on the schedule by the Election Fee of India, the second part of polling is slated to start on April 26, 2024, encompassing a number of states together with Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Jammu and Kashmir.
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Kerala:
- Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is searching for re-election from Kerala’s Wayanad constituency. His contenders embrace BJP’s Ok Surendran and CPI’s Annie Raja.
- Union Minister and BJP chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar is difficult three-time MP Congress chief Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram.
- Standard Malayalam actor Suresh Gopi is contesting from the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket towards Congress’ Ok Muraleedharan and CPI’s V S Sunil Kumar.
- All India Congress Committee (AICC) common secretary Ok C Venugopal is contesting to regain Alappuzha seat misplaced to CPI(M)’s A M Ariff within the 2019 polls.
The 61-year-old senior Congress chief has not misplaced any main election as far as he received the Alappuzha Meeting seat thrice in 1996, 2001, and 2006 and efficiently grew to become a Lok Sabha member from Alappuzha in 2009 and 2014. In 2019, he was not fielded from the seat after elevation to the publish of the AICC common secretary (organisation).
Karnataka:
- JD(S) state president and former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy is the NDA alliance candidate from Mandya, dealing with Congress’ Venkataramane Gowda.
- DK Suresh of Congress is searching for re-election from Bangalore Rural, contested by BJP-JD(S) mix’s C N Manjunath. The 57-year-old Congress chief is the youthful brother of Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress chief D Ok Shivakumar. He was the one Congress candidate to win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka.
- BJP Yuva Morcha nationwide President and sitting MP Tejasvi Surya has been renominated in Bangalore South and faces Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy.
Chhattisgarh:
- Former Chief Minister and senior Congress chief Bhupesh Baghel is contesting from the Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat. He faces a tricky battle towards BJP’s Santosh Pandey whi is vying for re-election from this constituency.
Maharashtra:
- Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) chief Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar is contesting from Akola towards BJP’s Anup Sanjay Dhotre and Congress’ Abhay Kashinath Patil.
- Actor-turned-Impartial MP Navneet Kaur Rana, now with BJP, is contesting from Amravati towards Balwant Baswant Wankhade.
Uttar Pradesh:
- BJP MP Hema Malini is contesting for the third consecutive time from Mathura, dealing with Congress’ Mukesh Dhangar and BSP’s Suresh Singh.
- Veteran actor Arun Govil is the BJP candidate from Meerut-Hapur, competing towards Congress-Samajwadi Occasion alliance’s Atul Pradhan. Govil changed BJP’s three-term MP Rajendra Agarwal as a candidate on this seat.
- Danish Ali is contesting from Amroha, his present Lok Sabha seat as a Congress candidate following his suspension from the BSP.
Rajasthan:
- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla was renominated from Kota-Bundi and faces former MLA Prahlad Gunjal on this seat.
- Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is the BJP candidate from Jodhpur, contesting towards Congress’ Karan Singh Uchiyarda.
- Vaibhav Gehlot, son of former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, is contesting from Jalore towards BJP’s Lumbaram Chaudhary.
- Veteran Congress chief C.P. Joshi is contesting from Bhilwara towards BJP’s Damodar Agarwal.
- Congress candidate Tarachand Meena, former IAS officer and shut aide of former CM Ashok Gehlot, is contesting in Udaipur. He’s dealing with BJP’s Mannalal Ravat
West Bengal:
- West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar is contesting from Balurghat towards Trinamool Congress’ Biplab Mitra.
Bihar:
- Veteran Bihar chief Pappu Yadav is combating from the Purnia as an unbiased candidate, selling a three-way contest between him, JD(U), and RJD. He not too long ago joined Congress however is contesting independently because of the denial of a ticket. Yadav, a five-time former MP, has a big political historical past within the area.