The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) held a meeting of its Central Election Committee to decide the names of the candidates from Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughters, Rohini Acharya and Misa Bharti, are likely to contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. In Himachal Pradesh, six rebel Congress MLAs who were disqualified from the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly last month, joined the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on Saturday. Janata Dal United MLA from Rupauli Bima Bharti resigned from the party’s primary membership on Saturday.