BJP releases first list, PM Modi to contest from Varanasi, Amit Shah from LK Advani’s Gandhinagar
PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Babul Supriyo, Hema Malini and Nitin Gadkari headline in BJP’s first list of 184 candidates announced for the Lok Sabha election 2019. Party patriarch LK Advani, however, will not contest from Gandhinagar, a seat he has held for last five terms.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi, the Bhartiya Janata Party announced on Thursday. Addressing a press conference, senior BJP leader JP Nadda announced the list of 184 candidates for the Lok Sabha election 2019. BJP President Amit Shah will contest from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar, a seat that is currently held by party’s patriarch and founder member LK Advani for last five terms.
The prominent names that feature in BJP’s first list include: Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, Mahesh Sharma from Noida, Gen VK Singh from Ghaziabad, Hema Malini from Mathura, Smriti Irani from Amethi, Union minister Jitendra Singh from Udhampur, Major Rajya Vardhan Rathore from Jaipur Rural, Babul Supriyo from Asansol, Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, Sakshi Maharaj from Unnao and Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal East.
The BJP, however, did not announce the 17 candidates from Bihar. Asked about Bihar, JP Nadda said, “BJP Central Election Committee has finalised the names and sent it to Bihar. The NDA will make a collective announcement for the same.”
BJP list also includes Satyapal Singh from Baghpat, DV Sadananda Gowda from Bengaluru North, Bengali film actress Locket Chatterjee from Hooghly.
BJP's Kerala strongman Kummanam Rajasekharan, who recently quit as Mizoram Governor, will fight against Congress's Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram, while Union Minister KJ Alphons will contest from Ernakulam.
Baijayant Jay Panda, who had quit Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal to join BJP, will contest from Kendrapara.
Here is the list of BJP candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2019:
Uttar Pradesh
- Varanasi - Narendra Modi
- Saharanpur - Raghav Lakhanpal
- Muzaffarnagar - Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
- Bijnor Kunwar - Bharatendra Singh
- Moradabad - Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar
- Sambhal - Parmeshwar Lal Saini
- Amroha - Kanwar Singh Tanwar
- Meerut - Rajendra Agrawal
- Baghpat - Dr. Satya Pal Singh
- Ghaziabad - Dr. Vijay Kumar Singh
- Gautam Buddha Nagar - Dr. Mahesh Sharma
- Aligarh - Satish Kumar Gautam
- Mathura -. Hema Malini
- Agra Shri - S P Singh Baghel
- Fatehpur Sikri - Raj Kumar Chaher
- Etah - Rajveer Singh MP (Raju Bhaiya)
- Badaun - Sangh Mitra Maurya
- Aonla - Dharmendra Kumar
- Bareilly - Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Shahjahanpur - Arun Sagar
- Kheri Shri - Ajay Kumar Mishra
- Sitapur - Rajesh Verma
- Hardoi - Jai Prakash Rawat
- Misrikh - Ashok Rawat, Ex MP
- Unnao - Swami Sakshi Ji Maharaj
- Mohanlalganj - Kaushal Kishore
- Lucknow - Rajnath Singh
- Amethi - Smriti Irani
Maharashtra
- Nandurbar - Dr. Heena Vijaykumar Gavit
- Dhule - Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre
- Raver - Raksha Nikhil Khadse
- Akola - Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre
- Wardha - Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas
- Nagpur - Nitin Jairam Gadkari
- Gadchiroli-Chimur - Ashok Mahadeorao Nete
- Chandrapur - Hansraj Gangaram Ahir
- Jalna - Raosaheb Patil Danve
- Bhiwandi - Kapil Moreshwar Patil
- Mumbai-North - Gopal Chinayya Shetty
- Mumbai-North-Central - Poonam Mahajan
- Ahmednagar - Sujay Vikhe
- Beed - Dr. Pritam Gopinath Munde
- Latur - Sudhakar Bhalerao Shrungare
- Sangli - Sanjay(Kaka) Ramchandra Patil
Assam
- Karimganj - Kripanath Malla
- Silchar - Dr Rajdeep Roy Bengali
- Assam Autonomous District(ST) - Shri Harensingh Bey
- Gauhati - Queen Ojha
- Mangaldoi - Dilip Saikia
- Jorhat - Tapan Gogai
- Dibrugarh - Rameswar Teli
- Lakhimpur - Pradan Baruah
Arunachal Pradesh
- Aruanchal West - Tapir Gao
- Arunachal East - Kiren Rijiju
Chhattisgarh
- Surguja - Renuka Singh
- Raigarh - Gomtee Sai
- Janjgir-Champa - Guharam Ajgale
- Bastar - Baiduram Kashyap
- Kanker - Mohan Mandavi
Jammu & Kashmir
- Baramulla - M M War
- Srinagar - Khalid Jahangir
- Anantnag - Sofi Youssaf
- Udhampur - Dr. Jitendra Singh
- Jammu - Jugal Kishore
- Belgaum - Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi
- Bagalkot - Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar
- Bijapur - Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi
- Gulbarga - Dr Umesh Jadhav
Karnataka
- Bidar - Bhagwanth Khuba
- Bellary - Devendrappa
- Haveri - Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi
- Dharwad - Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi
- Uttara Kannada - Anantkumar Hegde
- Davanagere - Gowdar M Siddeshwara
- Shimoga - B Y Raghavendra
- Udupi Chikmagalur - Kum. Shobha Karandlaje
- Hassan - A Manju
- Dakshina Kannada - Nalin Kumar Kateel
- Chitradurga - A Narayana Swamy
- Tumkur - G S Basavaraju
- Mysore - Prathap Simha
- Chamrajanagar - Srinivasa Prasad
- Bangalore North - D.V. Sadananda Gowda
- Bangalore Central - P. C. Mohan
- Chikkballapur - B N Bachchegowda
- Belgaum - Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi
- Bijapur - Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi
- Gulbarga - Dr Umesh Jadhav
- Bagalkot - Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar
Kerala
- Kasaragod - Raveesh Thantri Kuntar 3
- Kannur - C K Padmanabhan 3
- Vadakara - V K Sajeevan 3
- Kozhikode - Adv K P Prakash Babu 3
- Malappuram Shri Unnikrishnan Master 3
- Ponnani - Prof. V T Rema 3
- Palakkad - C Krishnakumar 3
- Chalakudy - A N Radhakrishnan 3
- Ernakulam - Alphonese Kannanthana 3
- Alappuzha - Dr K S Radhakrishnan 3
- Kollam - K V Sabu 3
- Attingal - Sobha Surendran 3
- Thiruvananthapuram - Summanam Rajasekharan
Odisha
- Sundargarh - Jual Oram
- Keonjhar - Ananta Naik
- Balasore - Pratap Sarangi
- Dhenkanal - Rudra Narayan Pani
- Bolangir - Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
- Nabarangpur - Balabhadra Majhi
- Kendrapara - Baijayant Panda
- Bhubaneswar - Aparajita Sarangi
- Aska - Anita Priyadarshni
- Berhampur - Brughu Baxipatra
Rajasthan
- Ganganagar - Nihal Chand Chauhan
- Bikaner - Arjun Ram Meghwal
- Jhunjhunu - Narendra Khinchal
- Sikar - Sumedhanand Saraswati
- Jaipur Rural - Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
- Jaipur - Ramcharan Bohra
- Tonk-Sawai Madhopur - Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria
- Ajmer - Bhagirath Chaudhary
- Pali - P P Chaudhary
- Jodhpur - Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Jalore - Devji Mansingram Patel
- Udaipur - Arjunlal Meena
- Chittorgarh - C. P. Joshi
- Bhilwara - Subhash Chandra Baheria
- Kota - Om Birla
- Jhalawar-Baran - Dushyant Singh
Telangana
- Karimnagar - Bandi Sanjay
- Nizamabad - D. Aravind
- Malkajgiri - N Ramchandra Rao
- Secunderabad - G Kishan Reddy
- Mahabubnagar - D K Aruna
- Nagarkurnool -Kum. Bangaru Shruthi
- Nalgonda - Garlapati Jithender Kumar
- Bhongir - P V Shamsunder Rao
- Warangal - Chinta Sambamurthy
- Mahabubabad - Jatothu Hussain Naik
Tamil Nadu
- Coimbatore - C P Radhakrishnan 2
- Sivaganga - H Raja 2
- Ramanathapuram - Nainar Nagendran 2
- Thoothukkudi - Dr Tamilisai Soundarrajan 2
- Kanniyakumari - Pon. Radhakrishnan 2
Uttarakhand
- Tehri Garhwal - Mala Rajya Laxmi
- Garhwal - Tirath Singh Rawat
- Almora - Shri Ajay Tamta
- Nainital - Udhamsingh
- Nagar- Ajay Bhatt
- Haridwar - Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal (Nishank)
West Bengal
- Coochbehar - Nisith Pramanik
- Alipurduars - John Barla
- Jalpaiguri - Dr Jayanta Ray
- Raiganj - Deboshree Chaudhary
- Balurghat - Dr Sukanta Majumdar
- Maldaha Uttar - Khagen Murmu
- Maldaha Dakshin - Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury
- Krishnanagar - Kalyan Chowbey
- Barrackpur - Arjun Singh
- Dum Dum - Samik Bhattacharya
- Barasat - Dr Mrinal Kanthi Debnath
- Basirhat - Sayantan Basu
- Jaynagar - Dr Ashok Kandari
- Mathurapur - Shyamaprasad Halder
- Jadavpur - Prof. Anupam Hazra
- Kolkata Dakshin - Chandra Kumar Bose
- Kolkata Uttar - Rahul Sinha
- Serampore - Debajit Sarkar
- Hooghly - Locket chaterjee
- Arambagh - Shri Tapan Roy
- Tamluk - Siddharth Naskar
- Ghatal - Bharati Ghosh
- Jhargram - Dr Kunar Hembram
- Medinipur - Dilip Ghosh
- Bishnupur - Shri Soumitra Kha
- Bardhaman Purba - Shri Paresh Chandra Das
- Asansol - Babul Supriyo
- Birbhum - Dudh Kumar Mondal
Manipur
- Inner Manipur - K K Ranjan Singh
- Outer Manipur - H Shokhopao Mate (Benjamin)
Mizoram
- Mizoram - Nirupam Chakma
Andhra Pradesh
- Visakhapatnam - D Purandeshwari
- Narasaraopet - Kanna Lakshminarayana
Tripura
- Tripura West - Rebati Tripura 1
- Tripura East - Pratima Bhaumik
Sikkim
- Sikkim - Laten Tshering Sherpa
Lakshadweep
- Lakshadweep - Abdul Khader
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli - Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Vishal Jolly
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