BJP

In light of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has swung into action, and have announced their preliminary list of candidates today.

The party announced a list of 195 candidates, which will be fielded for the general elections this year.

Prime minister Narendra Modi will fight the election from Varanasi, UP, for the third consecutive time. Meanwhile, defence minister Rajnath Singh is fielded from Lucknow, Smriti Irani from Amethi, and home minister Amit Shah from Gandhinagar.

Gujarat:

Vinod Chavda - Kachchh (SC)

Amit Shah - Gandhinagar

CR Patil - Navsari

Dr Rekha Chaudhary - Banaskantha

Bharatsinh Dabhi - Patan

Dinesh Makwana - Ahmedabad West (SC)

Mansukh Mandaviya - Porbandar

Parshottam Rupala - Rajkot

Poonam Maadam - Jamnagar

Mitesh Patel - Anand

Devusinh Chauhan - Kheda

Rajpalsinh Jadhav - Panchmahal

Jasvantsinh Bhabhor - Dahod (ST)

Mansukh Vasava - Bharuch

Prabhu Vasava - Bardoli (ST)

Gujarat’s 2019 candidates:

Out of the total 15, Vinod Chavda, Bharatsinh Dabhi, Amit Shah, Poonam Maadam, Mitesh Patel, Devusinh Chauhan, Jashvantsinh Bhabhor, Mansukh Mandaviya, Prabhu Vasava, and CR Patil are to repeat their candidature on their respective seats.

Meanwhile, incumbent MPs, including Parbat Patel (Banaskantha), Kirit Solanki (Ahmedabad West), Mohan Kundariya (Rajkot), Ramesh Dhaduk (Porbandar), and Ratansinh Rathod (Panchmahal) are not fielded in this year's elections.

BJP announced candidates for a total 195 seats:

11 candidates from Assam, 51 from Uttar Pradesh, 20 from West Bengal, 24 Madhya Pradesh, 15 from Gujarat, 15 from Rajasthan, 12 from Kerala, 9 from Telangana, 11 from Jharkhand, 11 from Chhattisgarh, 5 from Delhi, 2 from Jammu-Kashmir, 3 from Uttarakhand, 2 from Arunachal Pradesh, 1 from Goa, 1 from Tripura, 1 from Andaman and Nicobar, and 1 from Dadra Nagar Haveli.

Uttar Pradesh

Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Ritesh Pandey, Hema Malini, Ravi Kishan, Pradeep Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Om Kumar, Ghanshyam Lodhi, Parameshvar Lal Saini, Kanwar Singh Tanwar, Mahesh Sharma, Bhola Singh, Satyapal Singh Baghel, Raj Kumar Chahar, Rajveer Singh, Dharmendra Kashyap, Arun Kumar Sagar, Ajay Mishra Teni, Rekha Verma, Rajesh Verma, Jal Prakash Rawat, Ashok Kumar Rawat, Sakshi Maharaj, Kaushal Kishore, Sangam Lal Gupta, Mukesh Rajput, Ram Shankar Katheria, Subrat Pathak, Devendra Singh Bhole, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Anurag Sharma, Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel, RK Singh Patel, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Upendra Singh Rawat, Lallu Singh, Saket Mishra, Kirti Vardhan Singh, Jagdambika Pal, Harish Dwivedi, Praveen Kumar Nishad, Pankaj Choudhary, Vijay Kumar Dubey, Kamlesh Paswan, Neelam Sonkar, Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’, Ravindra Kushwaha, Kripashankar Singh, Mahendra Nath Pandey

West Bengal

Nisith Pramanik, Manoj Tigga, Dr Sukanta Majumdar, Khagen Murmu, Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury, Dr Nirmal Kumar Saha, Shri Gauri Shankar Ghosh, Jagannath Sarkar, Shantanu Thakur, Dr Ashok Kandari, Dr Anirban Ganguly, Dr Rathin Chakraborty, Locket Chatterjee, Soumendu Adhikari, Hiranmay Chattopadhyay,, Jyotirmay Singh Mahato, Dr Shubash Sarkar, Soumitra Khan, Pawan Singh, Priya Saha

Madhya Pradesh

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Shivmangal Singh Tomar, Sandhya Rai, Bharat Singh Kushwaha, Lata Wankhede, Virendra Khatik, Rahul Lodhi, VD Sharma,  Ganesh Singh, Janardan Mishra, Rajesh Mishra, Himadri Singh, Ashish Dubey, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Darshan Singh Choudhary, Alok Sharma, Rodmal Nagar, Mahendra Singh Solanki, Sudhir Gupta, Anita Nagar Singh Chaudhan, Gajendra Patel, Gyaneshwar Patil, Durga Das Uikey, 

Rajasthan

Om Birla, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Devendra Jhajharia, Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati, Bhupendra Yadav, Ramswaroop Koli, Jyoti Mirdha, PP Chaudhary, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Kailash Choudhary, Lumbaram Choudhary, Mannalal Rawat, Mahendra Malviya, CP Joshi, Dushyant Singh

Kerala

Rajeev Chandrashekhar, ML Ashwini, C Raghunath, Prafulla Krishna, MT Ramesh, Abdul Salam, Niveditha Subramanian, C Krishnakumar, Suresh Gopi, Shobha Surendran, Anil K Antony, V Muraleedharan

Telangana

Bandi Sanjay kumar, Arvind Dharmapuri, BB Patil, Etela Rajender, G Kishan Reddy, Dr Madhavi Latha, Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, P Bharat, Boora Narsaiah Goud

Assam

Sarbananda Sonowal, Kripanath Mallah, Parimal Suklabaidya, Amar Singh Tisso, Bijuli Kalita Medhi, Dilip Saikia, Ranjit Dutta, Suresh Bora, Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, Topon Kumar Gogai, Pradhan Baruah

Jharkhand

Tala Marandi, Sunil Soren, Nishikant Dubey, Annapurna Devi, Sanjay Seth, Vidhyut Baran Mahato, Geeta Koda, Arjun Munda, Samir Oraon, Vishnu Dayal Ram, Manish Jaiswal

Chhattisgarh

Chintamani Maharaj, Radheshyam Rathia, Kamlesh Jangde, Sushri Saroj Pandey, Tokhan Sahu, Santosh Pandey, Vijay Baghel, Brijmohan Agarwal,  Roop Kumari Choudhary, Mahesh Kashyap, Bhojraj Nag

Delhi

Praveen Khandelwal, Manoj Tiwari, Sushri Bansuri Swaraj, Kamaljeet Sehrawat,  Ramvir Singh Bidhuri

Jammu and Kashmir

Jitendra Singh, Jugal Kishore Sharma

Uttarakhand

Arunachal Pradesh

Kiren Rijiju, Tapir Gao

Goa

Shripad Yesso Naik

Tripura

Biplab Deb

Andaman and Nicobar

Bishnu Pada Ray

Daman and Diu

Lalu Patel

The party fielded 28 Women, 47 youth, 27 SC, 18 ST, 37 OBC

In a media briefing, BJP leader Vinod Tawde announced the names of 195 candidates contesting the 2024 Parliamentary elections.

In the list, of the 195 nominees, two former chief ministers and Lok Sabha Speaker have been included.

A total of 34 Union Ministers and Ministers of States will be fielded again in the Lok Sabha polls.

The party finalised the names of candidates during BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting chaired by PM Modi.

It is noteworthy that the former India opener and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, Gautam Gambhir, announced his decision to step away from active politics.

Party leader Jayant Sinha also announced to withdraw from the elections.

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