Coalition government will not survive if BJP wins 22 seats in LS Election: BS Yeddyurappa
Belgaum: BJP’s State President and former CM B. S Yeddyurappa on Sunday remarked that the JDS-Congress coalition government will not survive if the BJP manages to win 22 out of 28 seats in the state in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Speaking to mediapersons at the airport here on Sunday, Yeddiyurappa said that the final list of Candidates of BJP will be released soon and that the party will retain most of the sitting MPs and give ticket to them.
He added that only a couple of sittings MPs can lose out on their tickets.
He further clarified that BJP is aiming to win at least 22 seats in the state in the LS elections.
Speaking of Rahul Gandhi’s comments that it was BJP who released Masood Azhar, Yeddiyurappa said “The nation knows what the situation was back then when Vajpayee government had to release Azhar”.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
