The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday, March 13 released its second list of candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The party has named 72 more candidates including Anurag Thakur, former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Basavaraj Bommai, Piyush Goyal, and Anil Baluni.
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Tejaswi Surya, the party’s youth wing chief, is fielded from Bangalore South, and former Karnataka chief minister Basavraj Bommai will contest from Haveri. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur is set to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh.
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BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand. In Delhi, the party has fielded two new candidates — Harsh Malhotra from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi.
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In the list of 72 names, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal family has replaced Pratap Simha for the Mysore Lok Sabha seat.
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways of India Nitin Gadkari is set to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Nagpur. Further, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi is set to contest the upcoming elections from the Dharwad seat in Karnataka.
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Notably, former chief minister of Karnataka and influential Lingayat leader BS Yediyurappa’s son BY Raghavendra will contest from Shimoga.
The BJP’s second list re-nominates three Union ministers and three chief ministers. It also features candidates from 11 states and union territories across India.
| NAMES OF LOK SABHA CONSTITUENCY | STATES | NAME OF BJP CANDIDATE |
| Dadar and Nagar Haveli | Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu | Kalaben Delkar |
| East Delhi | Delhi | Harsh Malhotra |
| North West Delhi | Delhi | Yogendra Chandolia |
| Sabarkantha | Gujarat | Bhikaji Dudhaji Thakor |
| Ahmedabad East | Gujarat | Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel |
| Bhavnagar | Gujarat | Nimuben Bambhania |
| Vadodara | Gujarat | Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt |
| Chhota Udaipur | Gujarat | Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa |
| Surat | Gujarat | Mukeshbhai CHandrkant Dalal |
| Valsad | Gujarat | Dhawal Patel |
| Ambala | Haryana | Banto Kataria |
| Sirsa | Haryana | Ashok Tanwar |
| Karnal | Haryana | Manohar Lal Khattar |
| Bhiwani-Mahendragarh | Haryana | Chaudhary Dharambir Singh |
| Gurgaon | Haryana | Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav |
| Faridabad | Haryana | Krishan Pal Gurjar |
| Harimpur | Himachal Pradesh | Anurag Singh Thakur |
| Shimla | Himachal Pradesh | Suresh Kumar Kashyap |
| Chikkodi | Karnataka | Annasaheb Shankar Jolle |
| Bagalkot | Karnataka | PC Gaddigoudar |
| Bijapur | Karnataka | Ramesh Jigajinagi |
| Gulbarga | Karnataka | Umesh G Jadhav |
| Bidar | Karnataka | Bhagwanth Khuba |
| Koppal | Karnataka | Basavraj Kyavator |
| Bellary | Karnataka | B Sriramulu |
| Haveri | Karnataka | Basavaraj Bommai |
| Dharwad | Karnataka | Pralhad Joshi |
| Davanagere | Karnataka | Gayathri Siddeshwara |
| Shimoga | Karnataka | BY Raghavendra |
| Udupi Chikmagalur | Karnataka | Kota Srinivas Poojary |
| Dakshina Kannada | Karnataka | Capt. Brijesh Chowta |
| Tumkur | Karnataka | V Somanna |
| Mysore | Karnataka | Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar |
| Chamarajanagar | Karnataka | S Balaraja |
| Bangalore Rural | Karnataka | CN Manjunath |
| Bangalore North | Karnataka | Kumari Shobha Karandlaje |
| Bangalore Central | Karnataka | PC Mohan |
| Bangalore South | Karnataka | Tejasvi Surya |
| Balaghat | Madhya Pradesh | Bharti Pardhi |
| Chhindwara | Madhya Pradesh | Vivek ‘Bunty’ Sahu |
| Ujjain | Madhya Pradesh | Amil Firoziya |
| Dhar | Madhya Pradesh | Savitri Thakur |
| Indore | Madhya Pradesh | Shankar Lalwani |
| Nandurbar | Maharashtra | Heena Vijaykumar Gavit |
| Dhule | Maharashtra | Subhash Ramrao Bhamre |
| Jalgaon | Maharashtra | Smita Wagh |
| Raver | Maharashtra | Raksha Nikhil Khadase |
| Akola | Maharashtra | Anup Dhotre |
| Wardha | Maharashtra | Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas |
| Nagpur | Maharashtra | Nitin Jairam Gadkari |
| Chandrapur | Maharashtra | Sudhir Mungantiwar |
| Nanded | Maharashtra | Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar |
| Jalna | Maharashtra | Raosaheb Dadarao Danve |
| Dindori | Maharashtra | Bharti Pravin Pawar |
| Bhiwandi | Maharashtra | Kapil Moreshwar Patil |
| Mumbai North | Maharashtra | Piyush Goyal |
| Mumbai North East | Maharashtra | Mihir Kotecha |
| Pune | Maharashtra | Murlidhar Kidan Mohol |
| Ahmadnagar | Maharashtra | Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil |
| Beed | Maharashtra | Pankaja Munde |
| Latur | Maharashtra | Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangare |
| Madha | Maharashtra | Ranjeetsinha Hindurao Naik-Nimbalkar |
| Sangli | Maharashtra | Sanjaykaka Patil |
| Adilabad | Telangana | Godam Nagesh |
| Peddapalle | Telangana | Gomasa Srinavas |
| Medak | Telangana | Madavaneni Raghunandan Rao |
| Mahbubnagar | Telangana | DK Aruna |
| Nalgonda | Telangana | Saida Reddy |
| Mahabubabad | Telangana | Azmeera Seetaram Naik |
| Tripura East | Tripura | Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma |
| Garhwal | Uttarakhand | Anil Baluni |
| Hardwar | Uttarakhand | Trivendra Singh Rawat |
Four leaders from other parties who switched over to the saffron party at the eleventh hour were included in the second list of candidates released by the BJP on Wednesday. Former BRS leaders — Seetaram Naik, Shanampudi Saidireddy and Godam Nagesh – and Congress leader Gomasa Srinivas joined the BJP on March 10.
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The list also declared names for the two remaining seats in Uttarakhand. Former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat will contest from Haridwar and former Rajya Sabha MP and party’s national media in-charge Anil Baluni from Garhwal (Pauri).
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Earlier this month, the BJP had announced its first list of more than 190 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, due in April-May. With the second list, the BJP has now declared 267 names for the upcoming general election.
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Published: 13 Mar 2024, 07:18 PM IST