The third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election begins this morning with voting for 93 seats across 12 states, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat and the Hindi heartland belt of Madhya Pradesh, UP, Bihar, and Chhattisgarh.
Switching sides to the BJP in 2020, Jyotiraditya quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a Rajya Sabha member and even securing a spot in the Union Cabinet with the Civil Aviation portfolio
The BJP is expected to release a first list of candidates - around 100 names, which will include heavyweights like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah - for the 2024 Lok Sabha election later today.
The BJP has swept the Madhya Pradesh Assembly election, brushing aside the challenge of a Congress party that hoped fervently to mount a comeback in a state it won in 2018 but was ousted from in 2020