Lok Sabha Election 2024: BJP names Lovely in list of star campaigners for Delhi
Hindustan TimesWith the Bharatiya Janata Party eyeing to win all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, the party’s national general secretary Arun Singh on Monday released a list of 40 star campaigners, which included former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely who joined the BJP last week. Full coverage of Lok Sabha Election 2024 Besides, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, defence minister Rajnath Singh, home minister Amit Shah, Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Hardeep Singh Puri, Smriti Irani and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will also rally support for the seven BJP candidates in Delhi, according to the list that the party shared with the Election Commission of India. The list of star campaigners also included Delhi BJP MPs who have been dropped this time — Chandni Chowk MP Harsh Vardhan, New Delhi MP Meekanskhi Lekhi, West Delhi MP Pravesh Verma, South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri, East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir. A week after resigning from the post of Delhi Congress chief, Lovely rejoined the BJP, along with four other Congress leaders — former Delhi minister Raj Kumar Chauhan, former MLAs Naseeb Singh and Neeraj Basyoa, as well as leader Amit Malik — on Saturday.