BJP Releases First List: PM Modi to Contest from Varanasi, Amit Shah Gets Advani’s Seat
Staff Reporter / New Delhi
BJP today released the first list of it candidates who will contest forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will once again contest from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP announced on Thursday as it released its first list of 182 Lok Sabha candidates after a long wait.
BJP chief Amit Shah has been fielded from the Gandhinagar seat and he will replace senior leader and former party president LK Advani, who is the sitting MP from the constituency. Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari have been fielded from Lucknow and Nagpur again respectively. Union minister Smriti Irani will once again take on Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, as she has been fielded from the Gandhi bastion after giving the Congress chief a tough fight in 2014.
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वह जनता के विश्वास का आदर कहाँ करेंगे?भाजपा भगाओ,
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