New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday night released its latest list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections with Narendra Modi contesting from Varanasi, Dr M M Joshi from Kanpur, Rajnath Singh From Lucknow, Uma Bharti from Jhansi and Arun Jaitley from Amritsar.
Bollywood actor Kirron Kher will contest from Chandigarh, Shatrughan Sinha will contest again from Patna Sahib, while Meenakshi Lekhi will contest from New Delhi.
Dalit leader Udit Raj will be the BJP candidate from North West Delhi, while Delhi BJP chief Dr Harsh Vardhan will take on Kapil Sibal in Chandni Chowk.
Following is the full list of BJP candidates:
Assam: Kaliabor : Mrinal Kumar Saikia
Bihar
Maharajganj : Janardan Singh Sigriwal MLA
Patna Sahib : Shatrughan Sinha MP
Haryana
Ambala SC : Ratan Lal Kahariya Ex-MP
Kurukshetra : Raj Kumar Saini
Sonipat : Ramesh Kaushik
Rohtak : Om Prakash Dhankhad (president, Kisan Morcha)
Bhiwani-Mahendragarhj : Dharamveer
Gurgaon : Rao Indrajeet Singh MP
Faridabad : Krishnapal Gurjar MLA
Odisha
Keonjhar ST : Anant Nayak Ex-MP
Kandhamal : Sukanta Panigrahi
Aska : Mahesh Mohanty
Berhampur : Ram Chandra Panda ex-Deputy Speaker
Punjab
Amritsar : Arun Jaitley
Hoshiarpur SC : Vijay Sampla
Uttar Pradesh
Saharanpur : Raghav Lakhanpal MLA
Kairana ; Hukum Singh MLA
Muzaffarnagar : Dr Sanjeev Balyan
Bijnor : Rajendra Singh Advocate
Moradabad : Kunwar Sarvesh Singh MLA
Rampur : Dr Naipal Singh MLA
Meerut : Rajendra Aggarwal MP
Baghpat : Dr Satpal Singh Ex-Mumbai Police chief
Gautam Budh Nagar : Dr Mahesh Sharma MLA
Bulandshahr SC : Dr Bhola Singh
Aligarh : Satish Gautam
Agra SC : Prof Ramshankar Katheriya MP
Firozabad : S P Singh Baghel MP
Mainpuri : B S S Chouhan
Etah : Rajveer Singh ex-MLA
Aonla : Dharmendra Kashyap ex-MLA
Bareilly : Santosh Gangwar ex-MP
Pilibhit : Smt Maneka Gandhi MP
Kheri : Ajay Mishra 'Taini' MLA
Sitapur : Rajesh Verma ex-MP
Hardoi SC : Anshul Verma
Misrikh SC : Smt Anju Bala
Unnao : Harisakshi Maharaj ex-MP
Mohanlalganj SC : Kaushal Kishore ex-MLA
Lucknow: Rajnath Singh, BJP president
Sultanpur : Varun Gandhi MP
Farrukhabad : Mukesh Rajput
Etawah SC : Ashok Dohre ex-MLA
Kannauj : Subrat Pathak
Kanpur : Dr Murli Manohar Joshi MP
Jhansi : Sadhvi Uma Bharti MLA
Fatehpur : Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti MLA
Kaushambi SC : Vinod Sonkar
Barabanki SC : Smt Priyanka Rawat
Faizabad : Lallu Singh ex-MLA
Bahraich SC : Savitribai Phule MLA
Shrawasti: Daddan Mishra ex-MLA
Basti : Harish Dwivedi
Maharajganj : Pankaj Chaudhary Ex-MP
Gorakhpur : Yogi Aditya Nath MP
Deoria Kalraj Mishra MLA
Bansgaon SC : Kamlesh Paswan MP
Lalganj SC : Smt Neelam Sonkar
Azamgarh : Ramakant Yadav MP
Ghosi : Harinarayan Rajbhar
Salempur : Ravindra Kushwaha
Ballia : Bharat Singh ex-MLA
Jaunpur : K P Singh
Machhlishahr SC : Ramcharitra Nishad
Chandauli : Mahendranath Pandey ex-MLA
Varanasi : Narendra Modi, Gujarat CM
Bhadohi : Virendra Singh Mast
Robertsganj SC : Chhote Lal Khairwar
Chhattisgarh
Sarguja ST : Kamalbhan Singh
Raigarh ST : Vishnudev Sai MP
Janjgir-Champa SC : Smt Kamla Patle MP
Korba : Dr Banshilal Mahato
Bilaspur : Lakhanlal Sau
Rajnandgaon : Abhishek Singh
Durg : Ms. Saroj Pandey MP
Raipur : Ramesh Bais MP
Mahasamund : Chandulal Sahu MP
Bastar ST : Dinesh Kashyap MP
Kanker ST : Vikram Usendi
Uttarakhand
Tehri Garhwal : Maharani Smt Raj Laxmi MP
Garhwal : Retd Maj Gen B C Khanduri ex-CM
Almora SC : Ajay Tamta
Nanital-Udhamsingh Nagar : Bhagat Singh Koshiyari MP
Haridwar : Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank MLA
Chandigarh : Kirron Kher
Delhi
Chandni Chowk : Dr Harsh Vardhan
North East Delhi : Manoj Tiwari (Bhojpuri singer)
East Delhi : Mahesh Giri
New Delhi : Meenakshi Lekhi
North West Delhi (SC): Udit Raj
West Delhi : Parvesh Verma
South Delhi : Ramesh Bidhuri
