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