Lok Sabha 2024 polls: Naveen Jindal, Ranjit Chautala named as BJP candidates from Haryana hours after joining party

Election fever is gradually gripping India that will go to polls next month to elect the new government for five years. After consideration and deliberation, political parties are finalising name of candidates that it would want to contest and win in the Lok Sabha 2024 elections.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced candidates for four Lok Sabha seats in Haryana and the big names include Naveen Jindal and Ranjit Singh Chautala, who joined the party earlier on Sunday.

Lok Sabha polls 2024: Big names in BJP Haryana candidate list

The latest list from BJP include:

1 - Naveen Jindal from Kurukshetra

2 - Ranjit Singh Chautala from Hisar

3 - Mohan Lal Badoli from Sonipat

4 - Arvind Kumar Sharma from Rohtak parliamentary constituency

Naveen Jindal

Naveen Jindal, who will be contesting for BJP from Kurukshetra in upcoming General Elections 2024, had joined the party just hours ago before his name was announced by the party as its candidate from the Lok Sabha seat.

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Jindal (54), is the youngest child of former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal, among the richest women in the country, and ex-minister of state as well as late industrialist O P Jindal.

Three days ago, Naveen, the chairperson of Jindal Steel and Power, assumed charge as the President of the Indian Steel Association.

Naveen Jindal represented Kurukshetra in Lok Sabha between 2004 and 2014 as a Congress MP.

In the upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024, Naveen Jindal will take on AAP Kurukshetra candidate and former Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Gupta.

The AAP is contesting in Haryana in an alliance with Congress and was given Kurukshetra.

Ranjit Singh Chautala

Like Naveen Jindal, Ranjit Chautala, independent MLA from Haryana, joined the BJP on Sunday and within hours he was named by the party to contest from Hisar.

Chautala (78), joined the BJP at an event in Haryana's Sirsa. He is a minister in the BJP-led Haryana government.

Chautala is the son of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal and brother of former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala.

BJP MP from Hisar Brijendra Singh recently resigned from the party's primary membership and the Lok Sabha and joined the Congress.

Of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, sitting MPs from Sonipat, Karnal and Sirsa have not been re-nominated.

Of the total name of candidates BJP has announced from Haryana for the Lok Sabha polls 2024, six are new faces -- Kurukshetra, Karnal, Hisar, Sonipat, Sirsa and Ambala seats.

BJP has dropped sitting MP from Sonipat, Ramesh Kaushik, and fielded Rai MLA Mohan Lal Badoli who has been closely associated with the RSS for the past three decades.

In Rohtak, the party has fielded its sitting MP Arvind Sharma, who defeated former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s son Deepender Singh Hooda in 2019 in a closely contested election.

Karnal MP Sanjay Bhatia made way for former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar whom the party has fielded from the seat. Khattar was named as a BJP Lok Sabha candidate in the list released on March 13 after he quit as chief minister as the party effected a major shake-up in the state leadership.

Arvind Kumar Sharma has been re-nominated in Rohtak.

The BJP's March 13 list of candidates also included names of former MP Ashok Tanwar from Sirsa, from where the party has denied re-nomination to sitting parliamentarian Sunita Duggal.

In the Ambala-SC parliamentary seat, the BJP fielded Banto Kataria. The seat has been lying vacant since the death of her husband and former Union minister Rattan Lal Kataria last year.

The party has also re-nominated its sitting MPs Rao Inderjit Singh, Dharambir Singh and Krishan Pal Gurjar in Gurugram, Bhiwani-Mahendragarh and Faridabad seats, respectively.

In the last general polls in 2019, the BJP had won all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana.

Voting for all the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana will be held on May 25 in the sixth of the seven-phase election.

With inputs from PTI