<p>New Delhi: To win in the 161 seats that it lost in 2019, the BJP is now fielding its bigwigs to campaign in these seats. </p><p>The move comes at the end of an intensive campaign spread across a year and a half. </p><p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president JP Nadda, home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and senior leaders will be holding rallies in most of these seats in the coming days.</p>.Congress only gave slogans in name of poor: BJP president Nadda lauds Modi govt's efforts to alleviate poverty.<p>Additionally, Nadda held a meeting on Saturday night with election in-charges of various states. It is also expected that the party will release candidates for these seats anytime soon. </p><p>To win in the seats that the BJP could not manage in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections or did not contest, the party had earmarked 144 such constituencies which were then later increased to 161. </p><p>Senior MPs and union ministers were given the duty of Lok Sabha pravas of at least three of such seats, with a cluster of 3-4 seats assigned to a minister and an MP.</p><p>“Each of these seats had a vistarak assigned to it, and their job was to tighten the organisational structure — look at booth committees to the Parliamentary level,” a general secretary of the party, involved in the process said. </p><p>With the elections just a few months away, the party is now chalking out rallies and cadres meetings. “We are trying to draw up a plan where either one of the four big leaders visit each of these seats — maybe visit two to three seats in one day — in the run up to the elections,” the leader quoted above said. </p><p>On Saturday, Nadda held a meeting of incharges and sources attending the meeting said that they are likely to release the names of the first 100 candidates of the party. There is also increasing speculation that the party’s highest election body, the Central Election Committee, will convene in the next few days. </p>.Lok Sabha elections 2024: Expect BJP to announce first list of candidates in 3-4 days, says Yediyurappa.<p>There is a strong likelihood that seats such as Varanasi (the PM’s constituency), Gandhinagar (Amit Shah’s seat), Lucknow (Rajnath Singh), Hamirpur (Anurag Thakur) and Amethi (Smriti Irani) could be announced by the first week of March. </p><p>Most of the seats in the weak category are in South India. While it lost just two seats in Karnataka, the BJP had lost all the five seats it contested in Tamil Nadu with then NDA ally AIADMK, which has now left the alliance. The BJP had lost all the seats it contested in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. In Telangana, it won four seats. There is also speculation that Modi might choose to contest from a seat in Tamil Nadu but there has been no confirmation on that. </p>
<p>New Delhi: To win in the 161 seats that it lost in 2019, the BJP is now fielding its bigwigs to campaign in these seats. </p><p>The move comes at the end of an intensive campaign spread across a year and a half. </p><p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president JP Nadda, home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and senior leaders will be holding rallies in most of these seats in the coming days.</p>.Congress only gave slogans in name of poor: BJP president Nadda lauds Modi govt's efforts to alleviate poverty.<p>Additionally, Nadda held a meeting on Saturday night with election in-charges of various states. It is also expected that the party will release candidates for these seats anytime soon. </p><p>To win in the seats that the BJP could not manage in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections or did not contest, the party had earmarked 144 such constituencies which were then later increased to 161. </p><p>Senior MPs and union ministers were given the duty of Lok Sabha pravas of at least three of such seats, with a cluster of 3-4 seats assigned to a minister and an MP.</p><p>“Each of these seats had a vistarak assigned to it, and their job was to tighten the organisational structure — look at booth committees to the Parliamentary level,” a general secretary of the party, involved in the process said. </p><p>With the elections just a few months away, the party is now chalking out rallies and cadres meetings. “We are trying to draw up a plan where either one of the four big leaders visit each of these seats — maybe visit two to three seats in one day — in the run up to the elections,” the leader quoted above said. </p><p>On Saturday, Nadda held a meeting of incharges and sources attending the meeting said that they are likely to release the names of the first 100 candidates of the party. There is also increasing speculation that the party’s highest election body, the Central Election Committee, will convene in the next few days. </p>.Lok Sabha elections 2024: Expect BJP to announce first list of candidates in 3-4 days, says Yediyurappa.<p>There is a strong likelihood that seats such as Varanasi (the PM’s constituency), Gandhinagar (Amit Shah’s seat), Lucknow (Rajnath Singh), Hamirpur (Anurag Thakur) and Amethi (Smriti Irani) could be announced by the first week of March. </p><p>Most of the seats in the weak category are in South India. While it lost just two seats in Karnataka, the BJP had lost all the five seats it contested in Tamil Nadu with then NDA ally AIADMK, which has now left the alliance. The BJP had lost all the seats it contested in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. In Telangana, it won four seats. There is also speculation that Modi might choose to contest from a seat in Tamil Nadu but there has been no confirmation on that. </p>