The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unveiled its initial roster of 195 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election. The announcement was made by BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawade. The candidates are distributed as follows: 51 from Uttar Pradesh, 20 from West Bengal, 24 from Madhya Pradesh, 15 each from Gujarat and Rajasthan, 12 from Kerala, 9 from Telangana, 11 from Assam, 11 each from Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, 5 from Delhi, 2 from Jammu and Kashmir, 3 from Uttarakhand, 2 from Arunachal Pradesh, and 1 each from Goa, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar, as well as Daman and Diu.
BJP's Lok Sabha Election 2024 Candidate List
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has revealed its initial and second lists of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, totaling 267 names.
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The first list comprises 195 candidates, while the second list includes 72 candidates. These candidates were announced following a constituency meeting.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest for the Prime Minister seat for the third time from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
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Additionally, the first list features 34 Union Ministers, including prominent leaders like Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh.
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The second list includes three former Chief Ministers, nine Union Ministers, two Rajya Sabha MPs, and 15 women candidates.
Check the full list of the BJP candidates
Uttar Pradesh
- PM Modi - Varanasi
- Rajnath Singh - Lucknow
- 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 - Secunderabad
- Dr. Madhavi Latha - Hyderabad
- Konda Vishweshwar Reddy - Chevella
- 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 Gogoi - 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
- Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah - Tehri Garhwal
- Ajay Tamta - Almora (SC)
- Ajay Bhatt - Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar
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
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1. How many candidates did the BJP announce for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections?
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unveiled a list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election.
2. Which states have the highest representation of BJP candidates?
Uttar Pradesh leads with 51 candidates, followed by West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh with 20 and 24 candidates, respectively.
3. Who are some prominent BJP candidates from various states?
Some notable BJP candidates include PM Modi from Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Amit Shah from Gandhinagar (Gujarat), and Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal West (Arunachal Pradesh).