Lok Sabha Election 2024: All political parties are busy preparing for the Lok Sabha elections. In such a situation, Congress has also started preparing for the elections. For this, the party will hold a meeting of the Central Election Committee today i.e. on Thursday. In this Lok Sabha Elections The names of the candidates will be decided for. According to the information, Congress can give second chance to most of the sitting MPs. Apart from this, the party can also adopt the strategy of fielding big faces.
The first meeting of Congress will be held at the party headquarters on Thursday (7 March) to decide the candidate. According to sources, the Central Election Committee of Congress will decide the names of candidates for more than 100 seats. According to sources, the seats of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and North-Eastern states will be discussed in the meeting. Apart from this, the party can also discuss some seats in Uttar Pradesh.
These veterans can get tickets
After the names of the candidates are approved, Congress can soon release the first list. Sources believe that the Congress leadership is expecting senior leaders to contest the elections, where former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel will contest from Rajnandgaon. At the same time, UP State President Ajay Rai can get ticket from Varanasi and Delhi State President Arvinder Singh Lovely can get ticket from North East Delhi. Deependra Hooda can contest from Rohtak.
Suspense continues on the names of these leaders
The picture is not clear regarding big names like Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot. The biggest suspense is on Rahul Gandhi’s seat and Priyanka Gandhi’s contesting the elections. It is not yet clear whether anyone from the Gandhi family will contest elections from Amethi and Rae Bareli or not.
Caste equation will be taken care of
Caste equation and winning factor will be kept in mind in the selection of candidates. Discussions are also being held with allies in the alliance states. To select the candidates, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had recently constituted five screening committees for different areas. To consider the names sent to the State Election Committee, the Screening Committee selects one or two names for each seat and sends them to the Central Election Committee, where the final approval is given.
Screening committee meetings still going on
The screening committee meetings are still going on. The names of the seats for which the screening work has been completed will be decided after discussion in the CEC meeting on Thursday. Let us tell you that the Central Election Committee of Congress includes a total of 16 leaders including Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Ambika Soni, Adhir Ranjan Choudhary, Salman Khurshid, PL Punia, TS Singh Deo.