Lok Sabha Election 2019: BJP likely to announce first list of candidates later today
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) releases first list of candidate today. Union minister J P Nadda announced the names in the press conference.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah will be contesting Lok Sabha Election 2019 from Varanasi and Gandhinagar respectively.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh to contest Lok Sabha elections 2019 from Lucknow and Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur.
Here are the list of the BJP Candidates:
Uttar Pradesh
- Varanasi - Narendra Modi
- Saharanpur - Raghav Lakhanpal
- Muzaffarnagar - Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
- Bijnor Kunwar - Bharatendra Singh
- Moradabad - Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar
- Sambhal - Parmeshwar Lal Saini
- Amroha - Kanwar Singh Tanwar
- Meerut - Rajendra Agrawal
- Baghpat - Dr. Satya Pal Singh
- Ghaziabad - Dr. Vijay Kumar Singh
- Gautam Buddha Nagar - Dr. Mahesh Sharma
- Aligarh - Satish Kumar Gautam
- Mathura -. Hema Malini
- Agra Shri - S P Singh Baghel
- Fatehpur Sikri - Raj Kumar Chaher
- Etah - Rajveer Singh MP (Raju Bhaiya)
- Badaun - Sangh Mitra Maurya
- Aonla - Dharmendra Kumar
- Bareilly - Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Shahjahanpur - Arun Sagar
- Kheri Shri - Ajay Kumar Mishra
- Sitapur - Rajesh Verma
- Hardoi - Jai Prakash Rawat
- Misrikh - Ashok Rawat, Ex MP
- Unnao - Swami Sakshi Ji Maharaj
- Mohanlalganj - Kaushal Kishore
- Lucknow - Rajnath Singh
- Amethi - Smriti Irani
Maharastra
- Nandurbar - Dr. Heena Vijaykumar Gavit
- Dhule - Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre
- Raver - Raksha Nikhil Khadse
- Akola - Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre
- Wardha - Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas
- Nagpur - Nitin Jairam Gadkari
- Gadchiroli-Chimur - Ashok Mahadeorao Nete
- Chandrapur - Hansraj Gangaram Ahir
- Jalna - Raosaheb Patil Danve
- Bhiwandi - Kapil Moreshwar Patil
- Mumbai-North - Gopal Chinayya Shetty
- Mumbai-North-Central - Poonam Mahajan
- Ahmednagar - Sujay Vikhe
- Beed - Dr. Pritam Gopinath Munde
- Latur - Sudhakar Bhalerao Shrungare
- Sangli - Sanjay(Kaka) Ramchandra Patil
Assam
- Karimganj - Kripanath Malla
- Silchar - Dr Rajdeep Roy Bengali
- Assam Autonomous District(ST) - Shri Harensingh Bey
- Gauhati - Queen Ojha
- Mangaldoi - Dilip Saikia
- Jorhat - Tapan Gogai
- Dibrugarh - Rameswar Teli
- Lakhimpur - Pradan Baruah
Arunachal Pradesh
- Aruanchal West - Tapir Gao
- Arunachal East - Kiren Rijiju
Chhattisgarh
- Surguja - Renuka Singh
- Raigarh - Gomtee Sai
- Janjgir-Champa - Guharam Ajgale
- Bastar - Baiduram Kashyap
- Kanker - Mohan Mandavi
Jammu & Kashmir
- Baramulla - M M War
- Srinagar - Khalid Jahangir
- Anantnag - Sofi Youssaf
- Udhampur - Dr. Jitendra Singh
- Jammu - Jugal Kishore
- Belgaum - Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi
- Bagalkot - Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar
- Bijapur - Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi
- Gulbarga - Dr Umesh Jadhav
Karnataka
- Bidar - Bhagwanth Khuba
- Bellary - Devendrappa
- Haveri - Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi
- Dharwad - Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi
- Uttara Kannada - Anantkumar Hegde
- Davanagere - Gowdar M Siddeshwara
- Shimoga - B Y Raghavendra
- Udupi Chikmagalur - Kum. Shobha Karandlaje
- Hassan - A Manju
- Dakshina Kannada - Nalin Kumar Kateel
- Chitradurga - A Narayana Swamy
- Tumkur - G S Basavaraju
- Mysore - Prathap Simha
- Chamrajanagar - Srinivasa Prasad
- Bangalore North - D.V. Sadananda Gowda
- Bangalore Central - P. C. Mohan
- Chikkballapur - B N Bachchegowda
- Belgaum - Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi
- Bijapur - Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi
- Gulbarga - Dr Umesh Jadhav
- Bagalkot - Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar
Kerala
- Kasaragod - Raveesh Thantri Kuntar 3
- Kannur - C K Padmanabhan 3
- Vadakara - V K Sajeevan 3
- Kozhikode - Adv K P Prakash Babu 3
- Malappuram Shri Unnikrishnan Master 3
- Ponnani - Prof. V T Rema 3
- Palakkad - C Krishnakumar 3
- Chalakudy - A N Radhakrishnan 3
- Ernakulam - Alphonese Kannanthana 3
- Alappuzha - Dr K S Radhakrishnan 3
- Kollam - K V Sabu 3
- Attingal - Sobha Surendran 3
- Thiruvananthapuram - Summanam Rajasekharan
Odisha
- Sundargarh - Jual Oram
- Keonjhar - Ananta Naik
- Balasore - Pratap Sarangi
- Dhenkanal - Rudra Narayan Pani
- Bolangir - Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
- Nabarangpur - Balabhadra Majhi
- Kendrapara - Baijayant Panda
- Bhubaneswar - Aparajita Sarangi
- Aska - Anita Priyadarshni
- Berhampur - Brughu Baxipatra
Rajasthan
- Ganganagar - Nihal Chand Chauhan
- Bikaner - Arjun Ram Meghwal
- Jhunjhunu - Narendra Khinchal
- Sikar - Sumedhanand Saraswati
- Jaipur Rural - Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
- Jaipur - Ramcharan Bohra
- Tonk-Sawai Madhopur - Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria
- Ajmer - Bhagirath Chaudhary
- Pali - P P Chaudhary
- Jodhpur - Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Jalore - Devji Mansingram Patel
- Udaipur - Arjunlal Meena
- Chittorgarh - C. P. Joshi
- Bhilwara - Subhash Chandra Baheria
- Kota - Om Birla
- Jhalawar-Baran - Dushyant Singh
Telangana
- Karimnagar - Bandi Sanjay
- Nizamabad - D. Aravind
- Malkajgiri - N Ramchandra Rao
- Secunderabad - G Kishan Reddy
- Mahabubnagar - D K Aruna
- Nagarkurnool -Kum. Bangaru Shruthi
- Nalgonda - Garlapati Jithender Kumar
- Bhongir - P V Shamsunder Rao
- Warangal - Chinta Sambamurthy
- Mahabubabad - Jatothu Hussain Naik
Tamil Nadu
- Coimbatore - C P Radhakrishnan 2
- Sivaganga - H Raja 2
- Ramanathapuram - Nainar Nagendran 2
- Thoothukkudi - Dr Tamilisai Soundarrajan 2
- Kanniyakumari - Pon. Radhakrishnan 2
Uttarakhand
- Tehri Garhwal - Mala Rajya Laxmi
- Garhwal - Tirath Singh Rawat
- Almora - Shri Ajay Tamta
- Nainital - Udhamsingh
- Nagar- Ajay Bhatt
- Haridwar - Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal (Nishank)
West Bengal
- Coochbehar - Nisith Pramanik
- Alipurduars - John Barla
- Jalpaiguri - Dr Jayanta Ray
- Raiganj - Deboshree Chaudhary
- Balurghat - Dr Sukanta Majumdar
- Maldaha Uttar - Khagen Murmu
- Maldaha Dakshin - Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury
- Krishnanagar - Kalyan Chowbey
- Barrackpur - Arjun Singh
- Dum Dum - Samik Bhattacharya
- Barasat - Dr Mrinal Kanthi Debnath
- Basirhat - Sayantan Basu
- Jaynagar - Dr Ashok Kandari
- Mathurapur - Shyamaprasad Halder
- Jadavpur - Prof. Anupam Hazra
- Kolkata Dakshin - Chandra Kumar Bose
- Kolkata Uttar - Rahul Sinha
- Serampore - Debajit Sarkar
- Hooghly - Locket chaterjee
- Arambagh - Shri Tapan Roy
- Tamluk - Siddharth Naskar
- Ghatal - Bharati Ghosh
- Jhargram - Dr Kunar Hembram
- Medinipur - Dilip Ghosh
- Bishnupur - Shri Soumitra Kha
- Bardhaman Purba - Shri Paresh Chandra Das
- Asansol - Babul Supriyo
- Birbhum - Dudh Kumar Mondal
Manipur
- Inner Manipur - K K Ranjan Singh
- Outer Manipur - H Shokhopao Mate (Benjamin)
Mizoram
- Mizoram - Nirupam Chakma
Andhra Pradesh
- Visakhapatnam - D Purandeshwari
- Narasaraopet - Kanna Lakshminarayana
Tripura
- Tripura West - Rebati Tripura 1
- Tripura East - Pratima Bhaumik
Sikkim
- Sikkim - Laten Tshering Sherpa
Lakshadweep
- Lakshadweep - Abdul Khader
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli - Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Vishal Jolly
BJP came out with the first set of nominees for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and released list of 18 candidates for Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim Assembly elections. The list showcases 6 names from Arunachal Pradesh and 12 from Sikkim.
The BJP's central election committee (CEC), BJP's highest decision making body on selection of candidates, met for the third time on Wednesday.
On Tuesday evening, the CEC held a seven-hour-long discussion to deliberate upon the names of party candidates in various states.
The meeting, besides Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was attended by top brass of the BJP, including party chief Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley.
The CEC has already held wide-ranging discussions on selection of its candidates for Bihar, Maharashtra, Anadhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chattisgarh and all eight north-eastern states.
Though the Congress has announced candidates for 146 Lok Sabha constituencies so far, the BJP is yet to officially make any announcement on its nominees.
Sources in the party suggested that most of the ministers in the Union Cabinet, who are sitting Lok Sabha MPs, are likely to be fielded from same seats.
On Tuesday, the party had announced that it will drop its all 10 incumbent MPs from Chhattisgarh and replace them with new faces, a decision that comes in the wake of the party's drubbing in the recent assembly elections.
