Key take aways from the BJP’s first list of candidates for LS polls 2019
New Delhi, Mar 22: There are several take aways from the list of candidates announced by the BJP for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
BJP President Amit Shah will make his Lok Sabha debut this year after he repeated veteran L K Advani at the Gandhinagar Parliamentary constituency.
Here are the key take aways from the first list of candidates released by the BJP.
Shah's
debut:
Amit
Shah
who
was
elected
as
a
Rajya
Sabha
member
in
2017
will
fight
the
polls
this
year
from
the
Gandhinagar
Lok
Sabha
constituency,
a
seat
represented
by
L
K
Advani
six
times.
Shah who was earlier an MLA in the Gujarat legislative assembly between 1997 to 2017 has played a key role in shaping the BJP's mammoth victory in 2014. He is closely associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has held key portfolios including home in the Gujarat government.
Full list of BJP candidates for Lok Sabha Elections 2019
Veterans
left
out:
The
party
decided
to
leave
out
veterans
such
as
Advani
and
B
C
Khanduri.
On
Thursday,
senior
leader
Kalraj
Mishra
had
said
that
he
is
opting
out
of
the
race
this
year.
Veteran
leader
Bhagat
Singh
Koshyari
too
had
made
a
similar
announcement.
The party is yet to take a call on the fate of Murli Manohar Joshi, who had won from Kanpur in 2014.
Smriti
vs
Rahul:
This
election
would
also
witness
a
contest
between
union
minister,
Smriti
Irani
and
Congress
president,
Rahul
Gandhi
at
Amethi.
Irani
would
be
taking
on
Rahul
for
a
second
time.
In
the
2014
elections,
she
lost
to
Rahul
Gandhi
by
a
margin
of
over
a
lakh
votes.
The contest promises to be an interesting one. Considered a Gandhi bastion, Rahul had won the 2009 polls by a margin of 3.70 lakh votes. However in 2014, the margin came down to 1.07 lakh.