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BJP announces its first list of 195 candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2024
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday released its first list of candidates for the upcoming 2024 General elections, naming 195 candidates out of a total 545 Lok Sabha seats. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again been named as the candidate from his existing constituency, Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah too will be contesting from his Gandhinagar seat in Gujarat.
BJP’s first nomination list covers sixteen states and two union territories, the maximum from Uttar Pradesh where 51 seats out of 80 have been announced. The UP list also includes Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh from Lucknow and Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani from Amethi.
Two former Chief Ministers who have been fielded include former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb. While Chauhan has been fielded from the Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency, Deb has been fielded from the Tripura West seat. Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindiya has been nominated from his existing Guna seat.
While Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has been nominated from Kota, Hema Maline continues to hold onto the Mathura Seat. Union Minister of Earth Sciences has been nominated from Andra Pradesh West, and Manoj Tiwari has been nominated from North East Delhi.
The first list of candidates released by the Bharatiya Janata Party comprises of 28 female candidates, 27 candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, 18 candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes, 57 from the Other Backward Classes, and 1 Muslim candidate from Kerala.
Here is the full list of candidates released by the Bharatiya Janata Party:
Uttar Pradesh:
Varanasi - Shri Narendra Modi
Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Shri Bishnu Pada Ray
Arunachal Pradesh:
Arunachal West - Kiren Riju
Arunachal East – Tapir
Assam:
Karimganj- Shri Kripanath Mallah
Silchar- Shri Parimal Suklabaidya
Autonomous District - Shri Amar Sing Tisso
Gauhati - Smt. Bijuli Kalita Medhi
Bara Mangaldoi - Shri Dilip Saikia
Tezpur - Shri Ranjit Dutta
Nowgong - Shri Suresh Bora
Kaliabor - Shri Kamakhaya Prasad Tasa
Jorhat - Shri Topon Kumar Gogai
Dibrugarh - Shri Sarbananda Sonowal
Lakhimpur - Shri Pradhan Baruah Gedhkere
Chhattisgarh:
Sarguja-Shri Chintamani Maharaj
Raigarh - Shri Radheshyam Rathia
Janjgir-Champa - Smt. Kamlesh Jangde
Korba- Sushri Saroj Pandey
Bilaspur - Shri Tokhan Sahu
Rajnandgaon - Shri Santosh Pandey
Durg - Shri Vijay Baghel
Raipur - Shri Briimohan Agarwal
Mahasamund - Smt. Roop Kumari Choudhary
Bastar - Shri Mahesh Kashyap
Kanker - Shri Bhojraj Nag
Dadar and Nagar Haveli: Shri Lalubhai Patel
Delhi:
Chandni Chowk - Shri Praveen Khandelwal
North East Delhi - Shri Manoj Tiwari
New Delhi - Sushri Bansuri Swaraj
West Delhi - Smt. Kamaljeet Sehrawat
South Delhi - Shri Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
Goa:
North Goa - Shri Shripad Yesso Naik
Gujarat:
Kachchh - Shri Vinodbhai Lakhmashi Chavda
Banaskantha - Smt. (Dr.) Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary
Patan – Shri Bharatsinhji Dabhi
Gandhinagar - Shri Amit Shah
Ahmedabad West - Shri Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana
Rajkot - Shri Parshottam Rupala
Porbandar - Shri Mansukhbhai Mandaviya
Jamnagar - Smt. Poonamben Maadam
Anand - Shri Miteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel
Kheda - Shri Devusinh Chauhan
Panchmahal - Shri Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav
Dahod - Shri Jasvantsinh Bhabhor
Bharuch - Shri Mansukhbhai Vasava
Bardoli - Shri Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava
Navsari - Shri C.R. Patil
Jammu and Kashmir:
Udhampur- Dr. Jitendra Singh
Jammu – Shri Jugal Kishore Sharma
Jharkhand:
Rajmahal - Shri Tala Marandi
Dumka - Shri Sunil Soren
Godda - Shri Nishikant Dubey
Kodarma - Smt. Annapurna Devi
Ranchi - Shri Sanjay Seth
Jamshedpur - Shri Vidhyut Baran Mahato
Singhbhum - Smt. Geeta Koda
Khunti - Shri Arjun Munda
Lohardaga - Shri Samir Oraon
Palamau - Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram
Hazaribagh - Shri Manish Jaiswal
Kerala:
Kasaragod - Smt. M.L. Ashwini
Kannur Shri C. Raghunath
Vadakara - Shri Prafulla Krishna
Kozhikode - Shri M.T. Ramesh
Malappuram - Dr. Abdul Salam
Ponnani - Smt. Niveditha Subramanian
Palakkad - Shri C. Krishnakumar
Thrissur - Shri Suresh Gopi
Alappuzha - Smt. Shobha Surendran
Pathanamthitta - Shri Anil K. Antony
Attingal - Shri V. Muraleedharan
Thiruvananthapuram - Shri Rajiv Chandrasekhar
Madhya Pradesh:
Morena - Shri Shivmangal Singh Tomar
Bhind - Smt. Sandhya Rai
Gwalior - Shri Bharat Singh Kushwaha
Guna - Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia
Sagar - Smt. Lata Wankhede
Tikamgarh - Shri Virendra Khatik
Damoh - Shri Rahul Lodhi
Khajuraho - Shri V.D. Sharma
Satna - Shri Ganesh Singh
Rewa - Shri Janardan Mishra
Sidhi - Dr. Rajesh Mishra
Shahdol – Smt. Himadri Singh
Jabalpur - Shri Ashish Dubey
Mandla - Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste
Hoshangabad - Shri Darshan Singh Choudhary
Vidisha - Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Bhopal - Shri Alok Sharma
Rajgarh - Shri Rodmal Nagar
Dewas - Shri Mahendra Singh Solanki
Mandsour - Shri Sudhir Gupta
Ratlam - Smt. Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan
Khargone - Shri Gajendra Patel
Khandwa - Shri Gyaneshwar Patil
Betul - Shri Durga Das Uikey
Rajasthan:
Bikaner - Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal
Churu - Shri Devendra Jhajharia
Sikar - Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati
Alwar - Shri Bhupender Yadav
Bharatpur - Shri Ramswaroop Koli
Nagaur - Smt. Jyoti Mirdha
Pali - Shri P.P. Chaudhary
Jodhpur - Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Barmer - Shri Kailash Choudhary
Jalore - Shri Lumbaram Choudhary
Udaipur - Shri Mannalal Rawat
Banswara - Shri Mahendra Malviya
Chittorgarh - Shri C.P. Joshi
Kota - Shri Om Birla
Jhalawar-Baran - Shri Dushyant Singh
Telangana:
Karimnagar - Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Nizamabad - Shri Arvind Dharmapuri
Zahirabad - Shri B.B. Patil
Malkajgiri - Shri Etela Rajender
Secundrabad - Shri G. Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad - Smt. (Dr.) Madhavi Latha
Chelvella - Shri Kenda Vishweshwar Reddy
Nagarkurnool - Shri P. Bharat
Bhongir - Shri Boora Narsaiah Goud
Tripura:
Tripura West – Shri Biplab Kumar Deb
Uttarakhand:
Tehri Garhwal - Smt. Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
Almora - Shri Ajay Tamta
Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar - Shri Ajay Bhatt
Uttar Pradesh:
Kairana - Shri Pradeep Kumar
Muzaffarnagar - Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Nagina - Shri Om Kumar
Rampur - Shri Ghanshyam Lodhi
Sambhal - Shri Parameshvar Lal Saini
Amroha - Shri Kanwar Singh Tanwar
Gautam Buddh Nagar - Dr. Mahesh Sharma
Bulandshahr - Dr. Bhola Singh
Mathura - Smt. Hema Malini
Agra - Shri Satyapal Singh Baghel
Fatehpur Sikri - Shri Raj Kumar Chahar
Etah - Shri Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya)
Aonla - Shri Dharmendra Kashyap
Shahjahanpur - Shri Arun Kumar Sagar
Kheri - Shri Ajay Mishra “Teni”
Dhaurahra - Smt. Rekha Verma
Sitapur - Shri Rajesh Verma
Hardoi - Shri Ja’ Prakash Rawat
Misrikh - Shri Ashok Kumar Rawat
Unnao - Shri Sakshi Maharaj
Mohanlalganj - Shri Kaushal Kishore
Lucknow - Shri Rajnath Singh
Amethi - Smt. Smriti lrani
Pratapgarh - Shri Sangam Lal Gupta
Farrukhabad - Shri Mukesh Rajput
Etawah - Dr. Ram Shankar Katheria
Kannauj - Shri Subrat Pathak
Akbarpur - Shri Devendra Singh “Bhole”
Jalaun - Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
Jhansi - Shri Anurag Sharma
Hamirpur - Shri Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel
Banda - Shri R.K. Singh Patel
Fatehpur - Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
Barabanki - Shri Upendra Singh Rawat
Faizabad - Shri Lallu Singh
Ambedkar Nagar - Shri Ritesh Pandey
Shrawasti - Shri Saket Mishra
Gonda - Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh Alias Raja Bhaiya
Domariyaganj - Shri Jagdambika Pal
Basti - Shri Harish Dwivedi
Sant Kabir Nagar - Shri Praveen Kumar Nishad
Maharajganj - Shri Pankaj Choudhary
Gorakhpur - Shri Ravi Kishan
Kushi Nagar - Shri Vijay Kumar Dubey
Bansgaon - Shri Kamlesh Paswan
Lalganj - Smt. Neelam Sonkar
Azamgarh - Shri Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua’
Salempur - Shri Ravindra Kushwaha
Jaunpur - Shri Krioashankar Singh
Chandauli - Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey
West Bengal:
Cooch Behar - Shri Nisith Pramanik
Alipurduars - Shri Manoj Tigga
Balurghat - Dr. Sukanta Majumdar
Maldaha - Uttar Shri Khagen Murmu
Maldaha - Dakshin Smt. Syeerupa Mitra Chowdhury
Baharampur - Dr. Nirmal Kumar Saha
Murshidabad - Shri Gauri Shankar Ghosh
Ranaghat - Shri Jagannath Sarkar
Bangaon - Shri Shantanu Thakur
Joynagar - Dr. Ashok Kandari
Jadavpur - Dr. Anirban Ganguly
Howrah - Dr. Rathin Chakraborty
Hooghly - Smt. Locket Chatterjee
Kanthi- Shri Suvendu Adhikari
Ghatal - Shri Hiranmay Chattopadhyay
Purulia - Shri Jyotirmay Singh Mahato
Bankura - Dr. Subhash Sarkar
Bishnupur - Shri Soumitra Khan
Asansol - Shri Pawan Singh
Bolpur - Smt. Priya Saha