PM Modi and other key politicians contesting 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Here's a list of the key politicians who will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections from different constituencies.
The dates for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections have been announced. The elections will be held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1, 2024. A total of 96.88 crore voters will elect 543 Members of Parliament (MPs). While male voters are 47.15 crore, the number of female voters is 49.72 crore. A number of top-notch politicians, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be in the fray in the Parliamentary polls. Here's a list of the key politicians who will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections from different constituencies.
Narendra Modi
PM Modi will contest election from the Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh, where he has also won the election in 2014 and 2019. He defeated Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmy Party in 2014, while beat Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party in 2019.
Amit Shah
India's Home Minister will contest from his traditional seat of Gandhinagar in Gujarat. He is the sitting MP from the same seat.
Rajnath Singh
The Defence Minister and former UP CM is contesting from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, where he is also the sitting MP. He has also been an MP from the Ghaziabad constituency in UP.
Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi won the MP election from Wayanad in Kerala in 2019. He is in the fray from the same seat against CPI leader and women's rights activist, Annie Raja. Annie is contesting her first Lok Sabha election.
Nitin Gadkari
The minister of road and transport will contest from his tradition seat of Nagpur in Maharashtra. He has won the election from the same seat in 2014 and 2019.
Smriti Irani
Smirti Irani is an MP from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. She won the election in 2019 from the same seat and is attempting retaining her seat. She also contested the 2014 elections from Amethi but lost to Rahul Gandhi.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar
The Minister of State, Electronics and Information Technology, is a Rajya Sabha member since 2018, but the Bharatiya Janata Party is contesting him from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala against Congress stalwart and sitting MP, Shashi Tharoor.
Anurag Thakur
The Minister of Information and Broadcasting will contest Lok Sabha polls from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh.
Manohar Lal Khattar
Former Haryana CM is contesting from Karnal Lok Sabha. He represented the same constituency in the Haryana legislative assembly from 2014 to 2024.
Basavaraj Bommai
Former Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai from the BJP is up against the Congress' Anandaswamy Gaddadevara Math from the Haveri Lok Sabha constituency in his home state.
Trivendra Singh Rawat
He served as the CM of Uttarakhand from 2017 to 2021. He will contest the Parliamentary elections from Hardwar.
Biplab Kumar Deb
Former Tripura CM, who is also a member of Rajya Sabha, will contest the MP election from Tripura West. He is contesting against the Congress' Ashish Kumar Saha.