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Lok Sabha polls: BJP drops Som Parkash, fields Abhijit Das against Mamata’s nephew
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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The BJP has fielded former IAS officer Parampal Kaur Sidhu, who comes from an influential political family long associated with the Akali Dal, from Bathinda.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday, April 16, released the 12th list of seven candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The saffron party has dropped Union Minister Som Parkash from Hoshiarpur in Punjab but decided to field his wife Anita Som Parkash to keep the influential local leader’s support intact.
The party has named Abhijit Dats from Diamond Harbour in West Bengal. He will contest against Trinamool Congress MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek.
It has fielded former IAS officer Parampal Kaur Sidhu, who comes from an influential political family long associated with the Akali Dal, from Bathinda.
The party has fielded Udayanraje Bhosale, a descendant of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji, from Satara in Maharashtra.
In Uttar Pradesh, the party has fielded Vishwadeep Singh from Firozabad and Shashank Mani Tripathi from Deoria, dropping its sitting MPs from the two seats.
With the new list, the party has named candidates for around 430 seats for the polls to 543 constituencies starting from April 19.
The party also released its second list of 21 candidates for the Odisha assembly polls, fielding former minister Dilip Ray from Rourkela. So far, the BJP has named 133 candidates for the state polls.
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