Lok Sabha Election 2024: ECI announces schedule for general elections; Check list of candidates from major states

After the Election Commission of India announces the schedule and date of polls, the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) comes into effect. The MCC is a set of guidelines for political parties and nominated candidates during the elections. It aims to ensure fair elections and remains in place until the ECI announces the results. 
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While Gujarat and Telangana will have single poll dates, Karnataka will have two poll dates. The first phase will be for 14 constituencies on April 26 and elections for the rest 14 constituencies will take place on May 7. The date of counting is June 4. 

ECI has announced that large states like Uttar Pradesh will have elections in seven poll dates. Here are the dates for UP Lok Sabha elections 2024:
April 19: 8
April 26: 8
May 7: 10
May 13: 13
May 20: 14
May 25: 14
Jun 01: 13

According to the Election Commission of India, Maharastra will have five poll dates. Here's the schedule for Lok Sabha elections 2024 in Maharashtra:
April 19: 5
April 26: 8
May 7: 11
May 13: 11
May 20: 13
Total seats: 48

Single Poll Date: 22 (Arunachal Pradesh, A&N island, Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, DDN&H, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Ladakh, Mizoram, Meghalaya,  Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Telangana, Uttarakhand )

Two Poll Dates: 4 (Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tripura, Manipur)

Three Poll Dates: 2 (Chhattisgarh, Assam)

Four Poll Dates: 3 (Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand)

Five Poll Dates: 2 (Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir)

Seven Poll Dates: 3 (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar & West Bengal)
 

ECI has announced that the Lok Sabha elections 2024 will take place in seven phases. Here are the dates for the general elections 2024:

• Phase 1: April 19
• Phase 2: April 26
• Phase 3: May 7
• Phase 4: May 13
• Phase 5: May 20
• Phase 6: May 25
• Phase 27: June 1

Here's the full schedule for Lok Sabha elections 2024:

Here's the full list for candidates BJP has nominated for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 from the 26 seats in Gujarat.
Sabarkantha: Bhikaji Dudhji Thakor
Ahmedabad East: Hasmukhbhai Sombhai Patel
Bhavnagar: Nimuben Banbhania
Vadodara: Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt
Chhota Udaipur: Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa
Surat: Mukeshbhai chandrakant DalaVal
Valsad: Dhawal Patel
Kutch: Vinod Lakma
Manaskaata: Dr Rekha Hitesh Chowdhary
Gandhinagar: Amit Shah
Patan: Bharat Sinha
Ahmedabad West: Dinesh Kidar Makhwana
Rajkot: Purushottam Rupala
Porbandar: Mansukha Mandviya
Jamnagar: Ponaam Madam
Kheda: Dev Singh Chauhan
Anand: Nitesh Patel
Pancmahal: Rajpal Singh Jadav
Dahaud: Jaswant Singh
Bhahruch: Masukkh Vasava
Navsari: CR Patil
Bardoli: Prabhu Vasava

The Samajwadi Party (SP) declared six of its candidates from Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The SP announced the candidature of Yashveer Singh from Bijnor, Bijendra Singh from Aligarh, Manoj Kumar from Nagina, Daroga Saroj from Lalganj, Bhanu Pratap Singh from Meerut and Jasveer Valmiki from Hathras.

BJP has released the list of 51 candidates from Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha 2024 elections. Here's the full list:

1. Narendra Modi: Varanasi
2. Dr Mahesh Sharma: Gautam Buddh Nagar
3. Dr Bhola Singh: Bulandshahr
4. Smriti Irani: Amethi
5. Hema Malini: Mathura
6. Satyapal Singh Baghel: Agra
7. Raj Kumar Chahar: Fatehpur Sikri
8. Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya): Etah
9. Sakshi Maharaj: Unnao
10. Rajnath Singh: Lucknow
11. Pradeep Kumar: Kairana
12. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Muzaffarnagar
13. Om Kumar: Nagina
14. Ghanshyam Lodhi: Rampur
15. Parameshvar Lal Saini: Sambhal
16. Kanwar Singh Tanwar: Amroha
17. Dharmendra Kashyap: Aonla
18. Arun Kumar Sagar: Shahjahanpur
19. Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’: Kheri
20. Rekha Verma: Dhaurahra
21. Rajesh Verma: Sitapur
22. Jai Prakash Rawat: Hardoi
23. Ashok Kumar Rawat: Misrikh
24. Kaushal Kishore: Mohanlalganj
25. Sangam Lal Gupta: Pratapgarh
26. Mukesh Rajput: Farrukhabad
27. Ram Shankar Katheria: Etawah
28. Subrat Pathak: Kannauj
29. Devendra Singh ‘Bhole’: Akbarpur
30. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma: Jalaun
31. Anurag Sharma: Jhansi
32. Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel: Hamirpur
33. R K Singh Patel: Banda
34. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Fatehpur
35. Upendra Singh Rawat: Barabanki
36. Lallu Singh: Faizabad
37. Ritesh Pandey: Ambedkar Nagar
38. Saket Mishra: Shrawasti
39. Kirti Vardhan Singh alias Raja Bhaiya: Gonda
40. Jagdambika Pal: Domariyaganj
41. Harish Dwivedi: Basti
42. Praveen Kumar Nishad: Sant Kabir Nagar
43. Pankaj Choudhary: Maharajganj
44. Ravi Kishan" Gorakhpur
45. Vijay Kumar Dubey: Kushi Nagar
46. Kamlesh Paswan: Bansgaon
47. Neelam Sonkar: Lalganj
48. Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’: Azamgarh
49. Ravindra Kushwaha: Salempur
50. Kripashankar Singh: Jaunpur
51. Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey: Chandauli

So far, BJP has announced 20 candidates who will contest from Maharashtra's Lok Sabha seats. Check the full list here:

1. Nandurbar - Heena Vijaykumar Gawit
2. Dhule - Subhash Ramrao Bhamre
3. Jalgaon - Smita Wagh
4. Raver - Raksha Nikhil Khadase
5. Akola - Anup Dhotre
6. Wardha - Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas
7. Nagpur - Nitin Jairam Gadkari
8. Chandrapur - Sudhir Mungantiwar
9. Nanded - Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar
10. Jalna - Raosaheb Dadarao Danve
11. Dindori - Bharati Pravin Pawar
12. Bhiwandi - Kapil Moreshwar Patil
13. Mumbai North - Piyush Goyal
14. Mumbai North East - Mihir Kotecha
15. Pune - Murlidhar Kisan Mohol
16. Ahmadnagar - Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
17. Beed - Pankaja Munda
18. Latur - Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangare
19. Madha - Ranjeetsinha Hindurao Naik-Nimbalkar
20. Sangli - Sanjaykaka Patil

"The election dates (for Lok Sabha polls 2024) will be announced in Delhi in some time. However, people of the country have already announced the results even before the election dates are officially announced. The country has announced 'abki baar 400 paar', and the crowd here at Nagarkurnool is a testimony to that," PM Modi said, addressing a public meeting in Telangana's Nagarkurnool.

PM Modi addressed a public meeting in Telangana's Nagarkurnool. During his address, the Prime Minister slammed the rival political parties and said  they "shattered all dreams of the people of Telangana." He added, "I had visited Telangana during the 2023 State Assembly elections. During that time, I realised people are really angry with BRS. And today, I can see that people of Telangana have decide to elect Modi again."

Former BJP leader AP Jitender Reddy and his son have joined the Indian National Congress in Telangana, stating concerns over the party's recent performance in the State Assembly elections. The father-son duo also had an issue with the candidate preferences for upcoming polls.
Meanwhile, the Telangana government has appointed Reddy as the Special Representative and Advisor for Sports Affairs in New Delhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally kickstart Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha election campaign in Karnataka on March 16 from Congress President Mallikarjun Karge's homeground, Kalaburagi. He will address a gathering at the district headquarters town's NC ground at 2 pm IST, an hour before the election schedule and date announcement.
Kharge, who represented Kalaburagi twice in the past, lost to BJP's Umesh Jadhav by a margin of 95,452 votes in the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. It was his first electoral loss in several decades of his political career.