Several Sitting BJP MPs opt out

On Sunday, the day when the BJP issued its fifth list of 111 candidates, two sitting MPs Gen (retd) V K Singh from Ghaziabad and Satyadev Pachauri from Kanpur wrote to the party chief expressing their unwillingness to contest in the upcoming elections.Similarly, Vadodara MP Ranjana Bhatt expressed her unwillingness to contest this time. Curiously, new candidate Bhikhaji Thakr from Sabarkantha LS seat in Gujarat said he won’t be able to contest after the party gave him the ticket. The party then fielded another candidate.Harsh Vardhan, a sitting MP from Delhi’s Chandani Chowk, quit active politics a day after the party made businessman Praveen Khandelwal as its nominee. Vardhan was a two-time MP from this seat. On Sunday, the party dropped two prominent Union ministers namely Ashwini Kumar Choubey, who is the sitting MP from Buxar in Bihar and Gen Singh, sitting MP from Ghaziabad.



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