Lok Sabha elections: Nitin Gadkari, Manohar Lal Khattar, Piyush Goyal among BJP’s second list of 72 candidates
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New Delhi, Mar 13: For the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party released its second list announcing 72 more candidates. Four Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Thakur, Piyush Goyal, and Pralhad Joshi are on the second list. Apart from them, it includes three former Chief Ministers namely Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat, and Basvaraj Bommai. The list also includes 13 women candidates.
Haryana
Former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar who resigned yesterday on 12th March will be contesting from the Karnal Lok Sabha seat. Apart from them, Banto Kataria from Ambala, Ashok Tanwar from Sirsa, Chaudhary Dharambir Singh from Bhiwani-Mahendargah, Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav from Gurgaon, and Krishanpal Gurjar from Faridabad will contest in the elections.
Himachal Pradesh
Union Minister Anurag Thakur will contest from the Hamirpur constituency while Suresh Kashyap has been fielded from the Shimla seat.
Karnataka
Maharashtra
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will again be contesting from the Nagpur seat. Piyush Goyal will contest from Mumbai North. Pankja Munde has been fielded from Beed. Additionally, Anup Dhotre will fight the polls from the Akola seat, and Kapil Moreshwar Patil from Bhiwandi.
Uttarakhand
The party has announced candidates for two seats. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat will be contesting from the Haridwar seat while Anil Baluni, the party’s National Chief Spokesperson, is set to contest from the Garhwal seat.
Delhi
Harsh Malhotra will contest from East Delhi constituency, a seat which was held by former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir. Yogendra Chandolia will contest from North West Delhi.
Meanwhile, Kalaben Delkar will contest from Dadar and Nagar Haveli.
Gujarat
Hashmukhbhai Somabhai Patel will contest from Ahmedabad East, Dhawal Patel from Valsad, Mukeshbhai Chandrakant Dalal from Surat, Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt from Vadodara, Nimuben Bambhania from Bhavnagar, Bhikhaji Dudhaji Thakor from Sabarkantha and Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa from Chhota Udaipur.
Madhya Pradesh
the BJP has fielded Vivek ‘Bunty’ Sahu from the Chhindwara seat where he will face Congress leader Nakul Nath. Shankar Lalwani will contest from Indore.
Telangana
Godam Nagesh will contest from Adilabad, DK Aruna from Mahbubnagar, and Saida Reddy will contest from Nalgonda.
Tripura
The party has fielded Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma from Tripura East.
Earlier, on 2nd March, the party had released its first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
So far, Congress has announced candidates for 82 Lok Sabha seats while BJP has announced its candidates for 267 seats in two lists.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP won a total of 303 seats, leaving the grand-old party behind at 52 seats. The Lok Sabha polls are slated to be held in April-May this year.
Haryana
Former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar who resigned yesterday on 12th March will be contesting from the Karnal Lok Sabha seat. Apart from them, Banto Kataria from Ambala, Ashok Tanwar from Sirsa, Chaudhary Dharambir Singh from Bhiwani-Mahendargah, Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav from Gurgaon, and Krishanpal Gurjar from Faridabad will contest in the elections.
Himachal Pradesh
Union Minister Anurag Thakur will contest from the Hamirpur constituency while Suresh Kashyap has been fielded from the Shimla seat.
Karnataka
In Karnataka, the party has fielded Union Minister Pralhad Joshi from Dharwad. The party’s youth wing chief Tejaswi Surya will contest from the Bangalore South constituency and V Sommana from Tumkur. B Y Raghvendra, the son of former state chief minister B S Yediyurappa will contest from Shimoga. Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basvaraj Bommai has been given a ticket from the Haveri Lok Sabha seat, while PC Mohan will contest from Bangalore Central.
The BJP Central Election Committee has decided on the following names for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
— BJP (@BJP4India) March 13, 2024
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Maharashtra
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will again be contesting from the Nagpur seat. Piyush Goyal will contest from Mumbai North. Pankja Munde has been fielded from Beed. Additionally, Anup Dhotre will fight the polls from the Akola seat, and Kapil Moreshwar Patil from Bhiwandi.
Uttarakhand
The party has announced candidates for two seats. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat will be contesting from the Haridwar seat while Anil Baluni, the party’s National Chief Spokesperson, is set to contest from the Garhwal seat.
Delhi
Harsh Malhotra will contest from East Delhi constituency, a seat which was held by former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir. Yogendra Chandolia will contest from North West Delhi.
Meanwhile, Kalaben Delkar will contest from Dadar and Nagar Haveli.
Gujarat
Hashmukhbhai Somabhai Patel will contest from Ahmedabad East, Dhawal Patel from Valsad, Mukeshbhai Chandrakant Dalal from Surat, Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt from Vadodara, Nimuben Bambhania from Bhavnagar, Bhikhaji Dudhaji Thakor from Sabarkantha and Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa from Chhota Udaipur.
Madhya Pradesh
the BJP has fielded Vivek ‘Bunty’ Sahu from the Chhindwara seat where he will face Congress leader Nakul Nath. Shankar Lalwani will contest from Indore.
Telangana
Godam Nagesh will contest from Adilabad, DK Aruna from Mahbubnagar, and Saida Reddy will contest from Nalgonda.
Tripura
The party has fielded Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma from Tripura East.
Earlier, on 2nd March, the party had released its first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
So far, Congress has announced candidates for 82 Lok Sabha seats while BJP has announced its candidates for 267 seats in two lists.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP won a total of 303 seats, leaving the grand-old party behind at 52 seats. The Lok Sabha polls are slated to be held in April-May this year.