Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its second list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, due in few weeks. In the latest list, the party has named 72 candidates including Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Thakur, former Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar among others. The polling scheduled for the general elections is yet to be announced. According to reports, the election commission is likely to announce election dates in a day or two. In its first list, the saffron party named 195 candidates, out of which two withdrew their names. Take a look at key candidates named by in the second list.
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur in Maharashtra
- Union Minister Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North in Maharashtra
- Union Minister Pralhad Joshi from Dhawad
- Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur from Hamirpur
- Harsh Malhotra from East Delhi
- Rao Inderjit Singh from Gurgaon in Haryana
- Former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai from Haveri in Karnataka
- Pankaja Munde from Beed in Maharashtra
- Anil Baluni from Garhwal, Uttarakhand
- Ex-Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat from Haridwar
- Tejasvi Surya from Bangalore South in Karnataka
- Shobha Karandlaje from Bangalore North in Karnataka
The BJP dropped its sitting MP Manoj Kishorebhai Kotak from Mumbai North East to field Mihir Kotecha from the seat. For the Beed Lok Sabha seat, the party named Pankaja Munde as its candidate, instead of her sister Pritam Gopinath Rao Munde who has been holding the seat for the last two terms.
In Telangana, the BJP dropped its sitting MP Soyam Babu Rao to field Godam Nagesh from the Adilabad seat, which is reserved for the Scheduled Caste.
The BJP fielded its chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni from Garhwal, instead of incumbent Tirath Singh Rawat, a former Uttarakhand chief minister.
The party also dropped its two-term MP and former Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank from the Haridwar seat to field former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.
The BJP named Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma as its candidate from Tripura East seat, instead of incumbent Rebati Tripura.
In the first list of candidates released on March 2 for more than 190 Lok Sabha seats, the BJP had replaced at least 33 sitting MPs with new faces.
With inputs from PTI
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