PM Modi to contest from Varanasi for the third consecutive time….. Jyotiraditya Scindia to contest from Guna, Sushma Swaraj’s daughter, Bansuri named from New Delhi; Amit Shah – Gandhinagar
By Nirendra Dev
The BJP today announced the first list of contestants for the Lok Sabha election 2024. In that party first list of 195 contestants for the Lok Sabha election 2024. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be contesting from Varanasi, party general secretary Vinod Tawde announced. The first list includes the names of 34 central and ministers of state, two former chief ministers, Tawde said.
In BJP’s first list, Late Sushma Swaraj’s daughter, Bansuri Swaraj has been fielded from New Delhi. In South Delhi, new BJP candidate will be Ramvir Singh Bidhuri.
Former Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan is to contest from Vidisha.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has been fielded from Guna. Scindia in 2019 lost the seat as a Congress nominee.
Announcing the names of the candidates, BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawde said in New Delhi that the first list includes the names of 34 Central Ministers and Ministers of State. He added that out of the 195 candidates, 28 of them are women, 47 candidates are under the age of 50, 27 candidates belong to Scheduled Castes, 18 are Scheduled Tribes and 57 are representing OBC community. Mr Tawde informed that Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will be contesting from Porbandar and Parshottam Rupala from Rajlkot seats in Gujarat while Jyotiraditya Scindia will contest from Guna and Former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha seat in Madhya Pradesh.
The other names include Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal who will fight from Bikaner seat, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat from Jodhpur seat and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla from Kota seat.
Ramesh Bidhuri, Parvesh Verma, Meenakshi Lekhi, Dr Harsh Vardhan dropped from Delhi.Sadhvi Pragya Thakur dropped from Bhopal. Now Alok Sharma to contest from Bhopal.
पहली लिस्ट में उत्तर प्रदेश की 80 में से 51 सीटों पर प्रत्याशियों के नामों का ऐलान किया है. वहीं, पश्चिम बंगाल की 26, मध्य प्रदेश की 24, राजस्थान की 15, केरल की 12, तेलंगाना की 9, असम की 11, गुजरात की 15, झारखंड की 11, दिल्ली की 5, जम्मू कश्मीर की 2, उत्तराखंड की 3 सीट के अलावा छत्तीसगढ़, गोवा, अंडमान और दमन दीव की 1-1 सीटों पर भी नामों का ऐलान किया है
Apart from Narendra Modi, the heavyweights in the BJP’s 1st list Sarbananda Sonowal from Dibrugarh, include Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal West, Manoj Tiwari from North-east Delhi, Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi, Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar, CR Patil Nirahua, Nishikant Dubey from Godda.
The other major names include Suresh Gopi from Thrissur, Anil Antony from Pathanamthitta, Rajeev Chandrashekhar from Thiruvananthapuram, Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna, Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha, Arjun Meghwal from Bikaner, Bhupendra Yadav from Alwar, Gajendrasingh Sekhawat from Jodhpur, Om Birla from Kota, Bandi Sanjay Kumar from Karimnagar, G Kishen Reddy from Secunderabad.
Biplab Deb gets Tripura West, Ajay Mishra Teni Lakhimpur Kheri, Hema Malini Mathura, Smriti Irani Amethi, Sakshi Maharaj Unnao, Rajnath Singh Lucknow, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Fatehpur, Ravi Kishan Gorakhpur, Nirahua Azamgarh, Locket Chatterjee Hooghly.
The list, that includes includes names of 28 women, 47 leaders under the age of 50 and 57 members from the OBC community.The party recently held review meetings in which the performance of the sitting MPs was thoroughly reviewed before the party decided on its warriors to shoulder the crucial Lok Sabha election 2024.
This will be the first election where NDA will be contesting against the united opposition of the INDIA bloc led by the Congress. Narendra Modi has already set a target of 370 seats for the BJP alone while the NDA expects to do ‘400 paar’.
Announcing the first list, Vinod Tawde said in the last 10 years Modi government set an unprecedented record of development work. “PM set 370 target for BJP alone and the aim is to expand more geographical areas and also to strengthen NDA. We are confident of a third term,” he said.
Full list of BJP candidates for Lok sabha Elections
Uttar Pradesh
PM Modi – Varanasi
Smriti Irani – Amethi
Ritesh Pandey – Ambedkar Nagar
Hema Malini – Mathura
Ravi Kishan – Gorakhpur
Pradeep Kumar – Kairana
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Muzaffarnagar
Om Kumar – Nagina (SC)
Ghanshyam Lodhi – Rampur
Parameshvar Lal Saini – Sambhal
Kanwar Singh Tanwar – Amroha
Mahesh Sharma – Gautam Budh Nagar
Bhola Singh – Bulandshahr (SC)
Satyapal Singh Baghel – Agra (SC)
Raj Kumar Chahar – Fatehpur Sikri
Rajveer Singh – Etah
Dharmendra Kashyap – Aonla
Arun Kumar Sagar – Shahjahanpur (SC)
Ajay Mishra Teni – Kheri
Rekha Verma – Dhaurahra
Rajesh Verma – Sitapur
Jal Prakash Rawat – Hardoi (SC)
Ashok Kumar Rawat – Misrikh (SC)
Sakshi Maharaj – Unnao
Kaushal Kishore – Mohanlalganj (SC)
Sangam Lal Gupta – Pratapgarh
Mukesh Rajput – Farrukhabad
Ram Shankar Katheria – Etawah (SC)
Subrat Pathak – Kannauj
Devendra Singh Bhole – Akbarpur
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma – Jalaun (SC)
Anurag Sharma – Jhansi
Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel – Hamirpur
R K Singh Patel – Banda
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti – Fatehpur
Upendra Singh Rawat – Barabanki (SC)
Lallu Singh – Faizabad
Saket Mishra – Shrawasti
Kirti Vardhan Singh – Gonda
Jagdambika Pal – Domariyaganj
Harish Dwivedi – Basti
Praveen Kumar Nishad – Sant Kabir Nagar
Pankaj Choudhary – Maharajganj
Vijay Kumar Dubey – Kushi Nagar
Kamlesh Paswan – Bansgaon (SC)
Neelam Sonkar – Lalganj (SC)
Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ – Azamgarh
Ravindra Kushwaha – Salempur
Kripashankar Singh – Jaunpur
Mahendra Nath Pandey – Chandauli
West Bengal
Nisith Pramanik – Cooch Behar (SC)
Manoj Tigga – Alipurduars (ST)
Dr. Sukanta Majumdar – Balurghat
Khagen Murmu – Maldaha Uttar
Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury – Maldaha Dakshin
Dr. Nirmal Kumar Saha – Baharampur
Shri Gauri Shankar Ghosh – Murshidabad
Jagannath Sarkar – Ranaghat (SC)
Shantanu Thakur – Bangaon (SC)
Dr. Ashok Kandari – Joynagar (SC)
Dr. Anirban Ganguly – Jadavpur
Dr. Rathin Chakraborty – Howrah
Locket Chatterjee – Hooghly
Soumendu Adhikari – Kanthi
Hiranmay Chattopadhyay – Ghatal
Jyotirmay Singh Mahato – Purulia
Dr. Shubash Sarkar – Bankura
Soumitra Khan – Bishnupur
Pawan Singh – Asansol
Priya Saha – Bolpur (SC)
Madhya Pradesh
Jyotiraditya Scindia – Guna
Shivraj Singh Chouhan – Vidisha
Shivmangal Singh Tomar – Morena
Sandhya Rai – Bhind (SC)
Bharat Singh Kushwaha – Gwalior
Lata Wankhede – Sagar
Virendra Khatik – Tikamgarh (SC)
Rahul Lodhi – Damoh
V D Sharma – Khajuraho
Ganesh Singh – Satna
Janardan Mishra – Rewa
Rajesh Mishra – Sidhi
Shahdol (ST) – Himadri Singh
Ashish Dubey – Jabalpur
Faggan Singh Kulaste – Mandla (ST)
Darshan Singh Choudhary – Hoshangabad
Alok Sharma – Bhopal
Rodmal Nagar – Rajgarh
Mahendra Singh Solanki – Dewas (SC)
Sudhir Gupta – Mandsour
Anita Nagar Singh Chaudhan – Ratlam (ST)
Gajendra Patel – Khargone (ST)
Gyaneshwar Patil – Khandwa
Durga Das Uikey – Betul (ST)
Gujarat
Amit Shah – Gandhinagar
Vinodbhai Lakhmashi Chavda – Kachchh (SC)
Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary – Banaskantha
Bharatsinhji Dabhi – Patan
Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana – Ahmedabad West (SC)
Parshottam Rupala – Rajkot
Mansukhbhai Mandaviya – Porbandar
Poonamben Maadam – Jamnagar
Miteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel – Anand
Devusinh Chauhan – Kheda
Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav – Panchmahal
Jasvantsinh Bhabhor – Dahod (ST)
Mansukhbhai Vasava – Bharuch
Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava – Bardoli (ST)
C R Patil – Navsari
Rajasthan
Om Birla – Kota
Arjun Ram Meghwal – Bikaner (SC)
Devendra Jhajharia – Churu
Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati – Sikar
Bhupendra Yadav – Alwar
Ramswaroop Koli – Bharatpur (SC)
Jyoti Mirdha – Nagaur
P P Chaudhary – Pali
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – Jodhpur
Kailash Choudhary – Barmer
Lumbaram Choudhary – Jalore
Mannalal Rawat – Udaipur (ST)
Mahendra Malviya – Banswara (ST)
C P Joshi – Chittorgarh
Dushyant Singh – Jhalawar-Baran
Kerala
Rajeev Chandrashekhar – Thiruvananthapuram
M L Ashwini – Kasaragod
C Raghunath – Kannur
Prafulla Krishna – Vadakara
M T Ramesh – Kozhikode
Abdul Salam – Malappuram
Niveditha Subramanian – Ponnani
C Krishnakumar – Palakkad
Suresh Gopi – Thrissur
Shobha Surendran – Alappuzha
Anil K Antony – Pathanamthitta
V Muraleedharan – Attingal
Telangana
Bandi Sanjay kumar – Karimnagar
Arvind Dharmapuri – Nizambad
B. B. Patil – Zahirabad
Etela Rajender – Malkajgiri
G. Kishan Reddy – Secundrabad
Dr. Madhavi Latha – Hyderabad
Konda Vishweshwar Reddy – Chelvella
P. Bharat – Nagarkurnool (SC)
Boora Narsaiah Goud – Bhongir
Assam
Sarbananda Sonowal – Dibrugarh
Kripanath Mallah – Karimganj (SC)
Parimal Suklabaidya – Silchar
Amar Singh Tisso – Autonomous District (ST)
Bijuli Kalita Medhi – Gauhati
Dilip Saikia – Mangaldoi
Ranjit Dutta – Tezpur
Suresh Bora – Nowgong
Kamakhya Prasad Tasa – Kaliabor
Topon Kumar Gogai – Jorhat
Pradhan Baruah – Lakhimpur
Jharkhand
Tala Marandi – Rajmahal (ST)
Sunil Soren – Dumka (ST)
Nishikant Dubey – Godda
Annapurna Devi – Kodarma
Sanjay Seth – Ranchi
Vidhyut Baran Mahato – Jamshedpur
Geeta Koda – Singhbhum (ST)
Arjun Munda – Khunti (ST)
Samir Oraon – Lohardaga (ST)
Vishnu Dayal Ram – Palamau (SC)
Manish Jaiswal – Hazaribagh
Chhattisgarh
Chintamani Maharaj – Sarguja (ST)
Radheshyam Rathia – Raigarh (ST)
Kamlesh Jangde – Janjgir-Champa (SC)
Sushri Saroj Pandey – Korba
Tokhan Sahu – Bilaspur
Santosh Pandey – Rajnandgaon
Vijay Baghel – Durg
Brijmohan Agarwal – Raipur
Roop Kumari Choudhary – Mahasamund
Mahesh Kashyap – Bastar (ST)
Bhojraj Nag – Kanker (ST)
Delhi
Praveen Khandelwal – Chandni Chowk
Manoj Tiwari – North East Delhi
Sushri Bansuri Swaraj – New Delhi
Kamaljeet Sehrawat – West Delhi
Ramvir Singh Bidhuri – South Delhi
Jammu and Kashmir
Jitendra Singh – Udhampur
Jugal Kishore Sharma – Jammu
Uttarakhand – 3
Arunachal Pradesh
Kiren Rijiju – Arunachal West
Tapir Gao – Arunachal East
Goa
Shripad Yesso Naik – North Goa
Tripura
Biplab Deb – Tripura
Andaman and Nicobar
Bishnu Pada Ray – Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Daman and Diu
Lalubhai Patel – Daman and Diu