New Delhi:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released the first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The list contains names of 184 candidates. According to the list released by the party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will again contest from Varanasi whereas party president Amit Shah will fight his first Lok Sabha poll from Gandhinagar.
Senior party leader JP Nadda told a press conference that the party also decided to field Home Minister Rajnath Singh from Lucknow and another Union minister Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur. Both leaders had won from these seats in the last general election.
Here is the complete list of 184 candidates:
Uttar Pradesh:
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Varanasi
2. Raghav Lakhanpal: Saharanpur
3. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Muzaffarnagar
4. Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar: Moradabad
5. Parmeshwar Lal Saini: Sambhal
6. Kanwar Singh Tanwar: Amroha
7. Rajendra Agrawal: Meerut
8. Satya Pal Singh: Baghpat
9. Vijay Kumar Singh: Ghaziabad
10. Mahesh Sharma: Gautam Buddha Nagar
11. Satish Kumar Gautam: Aligarh
12. Hema Malini: Mathura
13. SP Singh Baghel: Agra
14. Raj Kumar Chaher:Fatehpur Sikri
15. Rajveer Singh: Etah
16. Sangh Mitra Maurya: Badaun
17. Dharmendra Kumar: Aonla
18. Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Bareilly
19. Arun Sagar: Shahjahanpur (SC)
20. Ajay Kumar Mishra: Kheri
21. Rajesh Verma: Sitapur
22. Jai Prakash Rawat: Hardoi (SC)
23. Ashok Rawat: Misrikh
24. Swami Sakshi Maharaj: Unnao
25. Kaushal Kishore: Mohanlalganj (SC)
26. Rajnath Singh: Lucknow
27: Smriti Irani: Amethi
28. Kunwar Bharatendra Singh from Bijnor
Maharashtra:
1. Nandurbar (ST): Heena Vijaykumar Gavit
2. Raver: Raksha Nikhil Khadse
3. Akola: Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre
4. Wardha: Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas
5. Nagpur: Nitin Jairam Gadkari
6. Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST): Ashok Mahadeorao Nete
7. Chandrapur: Hansraj Gangaram Ahir
8. Jalna: Raosaheb Patil Danve
9. Bhiwandi: Kapil Moreshwar Patil
10. Mumbai North: Gopal Chinayya Shetty
11. Mumbai North Central: Poonam Mahajan
12. Ahmednagar: Sujay Vikhe
13. Beed: Pritam Gopinath Munde
14. Latur: Sudhakar Bhalerao Shrungare
15. Sangli: Sanjay (Kaka) Ramchandra Patil
16. Dhule: Subhash Bhamre
Andaman and Nicobar Island:
1. Andaman and Nicobar Island: Vishal Jolly
Assam:
1. Karimganj (SC): Kripanath Malla
2. Silchar: Dr Rajdeep Roy Bengali
3. Autonomous District (ST): Harensingh Bey
4. Gauhati: Queen Ojha
5. Mangaldoi: Dilip Saikia
6. Jorhat: Tapan Gogai
7. Dibrugarh: Rameswar Teli
8. Lakhimpur: Pradan Baruah
Arunachal Pradesh:
1. Aruanchal West: Tapir Gao
2. Arunachal East: Kiren Rijiju
Chhattisgarh:
1. Surguja (ST): Renuka Singh
2. Raigarh(ST): Gomtee Sai
3. Janjgir-Champa (SC): Guharam Ajgale
4. Bastar (ST): Baiduram Kashyap
5. Kanker (ST): Mohan Mandavi
Dadra and Nagar Haveli:
1. Dadra and Nagar Haveli (ST): Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel
Jammu and Kashmir:
1. Baramulla: MM War
2. Srinagar: Khalid Jahangir
3. Anantnag: Sofi Youssaf
4. Udhampur: Dr. Jitendra Singh
5. Jammu: Jugal Kishore Sharma
Karnataka:
1. Belgaum: Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi
2. Bagalkot: Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar
3. Bijapur (SC): Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi
4. Gulbarga (SC): Dr Umesh Jadhav
5. Bidar: Bhagwanth Khuba
6. Bellary: Devendrappa
7. Haveri: Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi
8. Dharwad: Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi
9. Uttara Kannada: Anantkumar Hegde
10. Davanagere: Gowdar M Siddeshwara
11. Shimoga: BY Raghavendra
12. Udupi Chikmagalur: Shobha Karandlaje
13. Hassan: A Manju
14. Dakshina Kannada: Nalin Kumar Kateel
15. Chitradurga (SC): A Narayana Swamy
16. Tumkur: GS Basavaraju
17. Mysore: Prathap Simha
18. Chamrajanagar: Srinivasa Prasad
19. Bangalore North: DV Sadananda Gowda
20. Bangalore Central: PC Mohan
21. Chikkballapur: BN Bachchegowda
Kerala:
1. Kasaragod: Raveesh Thantri Kuntar
2. Kannur: CK Padmanabhan
3. Vadakara: VK Sajeevan
4. Kozhikode: Adv KP Prakash Babu
5. Malappuram: Unnikrishnan Master
6. Ponnani: Prof. VT Rema
7. Palakkad: C Krishnakumar
8. Chalakudy: AN Radhakrishnan
9. Ernakulam: Alphonese Kannanthana
10. Alappuzha: Dr KS Radhakrishnan
11. Kollam: KV Sabu
12. Attingal: Sobha Surendran
13. Thiruvananthapuram: Kummanam Rajasekharan
Lakshadweep:
1. Lakshadweep (ST): Abdul Khader
Manipur:
1. Inner Manipur: KK Ranjan Singh
2. Outer Manipur (ST): H Shokhopao Mate (Benjamin)
Mizoram:
1. Mizoram (ST): Nirupam Chakma
Odisha:
1. Sundargarh (ST): Jual Oram
2. Keonjhar (ST): Ananta Naik
3. Balasore: Pratap Sarangi
4. Dhenkanal: Rudra Narayan Pani
5. Bolangir: Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
6. Nabarangpur (ST): Balabhadra Majhi
7. Kendrapara: Baijayant Panda
8. Bhubaneswar: Aparajita Sarangi
9. Aska: Anita Priyadarshni
10. Berhampur: Brughu Baxipatra
Rajasthan:
1. Ganganagar (SC): Nihal Chand Chauhan
2. Bikaner (SC): Arjun Ram Meghwal
3. Jhunjhunu: Narendra Khinchal
4. Sikar: Sumedhanand Saraswati
5. Jaipur Rural: Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
6. Jaipur: Ramcharan Bohra
7. Tonk-Sawai Madhopur: Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria
8. Ajmer: Bhagirath Chaudhary
9. Pali: PP Chaudhary
10. Jodhpur: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
11. Jalore: Devji Mansingram Patel
12. Udaipur: Arjunlal Meena
13. Chittorgarh: CP Joshi
14. Bhilwara: Subhash Chandra Baheria
15. Kota: Om Birla
16. Jhalawar-Baran: Dushyant Singh
Sikkim:
1. Sikkim: Laten Tshering Sherpa
Tamil Nadu:
1. Coimbatore: CP Radhakrishnan
2. Sivaganga: H Raja
3. Ramanathapuram: Nainar Nagendran
4. Thoothukkudi: Dr Tamilisai Soundarrajan
5. Kanniyakumari: Pon Radhakrishnan
Telangana:
1. Karimnagar: Bandi Sanjay
2. Nizamabad: D Aravind
3. Malkajgiri: N Ramchandra Rao
4. Secunderabad: G Kishan Reddy
5. Mahabubnagar: DK Aruna
6. Nagarkurnool (SC): Bangaru Shruthi
7. Nalgonda: Garlapati Jithender Kumar
8. Bhongir: PV Shamsunder Rao
9. Warangal: Chinta Sambamurthy
10. Mahabubabad: Jatothu Hussain Naik
Tripura:
1. Tripura West: Rebati
2. Tripura East (ST): Pratima Bhaumik
Uttarakhand:
1. Tehri Garhwal: Mala Rajya Laxmi
2. Garhwal: Tirath Singh Rawat
3. Almora (SC): Ajay Tamta
4. Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar: Ajay Bhatt
5. Hardwar: Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal (Nishank)
West Bengal:
1. Coochbehar: Nisith Pramanik
2. Alipurduars (ST): John Barla
3. Jalpaiguri (SC): Dr Jayanta Ray
4. Raiganj: Deboshree Chaudhary
5. Maldaha Uttar: Khagen Murmu
6. Maldaha Dakshin: Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury
7. Krishnanagar: Kalyan Chowbey
8. Barrackpur: Arjun Singh
9. Dum Dum: Samik Bhattacharya
10. Barasat: Dr Mrinal Kanthi Debnath
11. Basirhat: Shri Sayantan Basu
12. Jaynagar (SC): Dr Ashok Kandari
13. Mathurapur (SC): Shyamaprasad Halder
14. Jadavpur: Prof. Anupam Hazra
15. Kolkata Dakshin: Chandra Kumar Bose
16. Kolkata Uttar: Rahul Sinha
17. Serampore: Debajit Sarkar
18. Hooghly: Locket Chatterjee
19. Arambagh (SC): Tapan Roy
20. Tamluk: Siddharth Naskar
21. Ghatal: Bharati Ghosh
22. Jhargram (ST): Dr Kunar Hembram
23. Medinipur: Dilip Ghosh
24. Bishnupur (SC): Soumitra Khan
25. Bardhaman Purba (SC): Paresh Chandra Das
26. Asansol: Babul Supriyo
27. Birbhum: Dudh Kumar Mondal
28: Balurghat: Dr Sukanta Majumdar
Andhra Pradesh:
1. Visakhapatnam: D Purandeshwari
2. Narasaraopet: Kanna Lakshminarayana
