After Gautam Gambhir, BJP MP Jayant Sinha on Saturday requested party chief JP Nadda to relieve him of electoral duties ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Sinha, a two-term MP from Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh, said he had the privilege of serving the people of Bharat and Hazaribagh for the past ten years and extended gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Amit Shah and the BJP leadership.
Speculations are rife that the BJP may deny tickets to some of its sitting MPs.
I have requested Hon’ble Party President Shri @JPNadda ji to relieve me of my direct electoral duties so that I can focus my efforts on combating global climate change in Bharat and around the world. Of course, I will continue to work with the party on economic and governance…— Jayant Sinha (@jayantsinha) March 2, 2024
The announcements by Gambhir and Sinha came two days after the BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting took place in the national capital to take a call on the first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier in the day, Gambhir said he had requested BJP president JP Nadda to relieve him of his political duties.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a slogan of ‘Crossing 400’ in this year’s Lok Sabha elections. The BJP aims to win more than 370 seats on its own.
The BJP’s CEC in its meeting for deciding Lok Sabha poll candidates has deliberated on the party’s nominees for nearly 16 states amid indications that several heavyweights may figure in the first list, news agency PTI reported.
The CEC members, which included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party’s national president J P Nadda and Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, pored over the probables for states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa and Uttarakhand among others to finalise the nominees.
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