The Bhartiya Janata Party on Tuesday released the 14th of three candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Earlier this month, the BJP released the first list of 195 candidates for the elections. With the addition of more candidates to the list, the BJP has now announced 435 names for the polls for the Lok Sabha elections.    

The saffron party has fielded Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi once again. In its first announcement, the party nominated 34 Union ministers, including key figures like Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Smriti Irani, among the 195 candidates named.

Among the notable names on the list are former chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Biplab Deb, as well as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Chouhan will contest from Vidisha, while Deb will vie for the Tripura West seat. Union ministers like Mansukh Mandaviya, Jitendra Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, and others have also been fielded by the party.

In the DMK-ruled Tamil Nadu, the party fielded its state unit President K Annamalai, former Telangana governor Tamilisai, and actress Radhika Sarathkumar among notable names.

Complete List Of BJP Candidates For Lok Sabha Elections 2024

S.N. # Candidate Seat
1 1 Narendra Modi Varanasi

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

2 1 Bishnu Pada Ray
Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Andhra Pradesh

3 1 Kothapalli Geetha Araku ST
4 2 CM Ramesh Anakapalle
5 3 D Purandareshwari Rajahmundry
6 4 Bupathiraju Srinivas Varma Narsapuram
7 5 Varaprasad Rao Tirupati SC
8 6 N. Kiran Kumar Reddy Rajampet


Arunachal Pradesh

9 1 Kiren Rijiju Arunachal West
10 2 Tapir Gao Arunachal East

Assam

11 1 Kripanath Mallah Karimganj
12 2 Parimal Suklabaidya Silchar
13 3 Amar Sing Tisso Diphu
14 4 Bijuli Kalita Medhi Gauhati
15 5 Dilip Saikia Darrang-Udalguri
16 6 Ranjit Dutta Sonitpur
17 7 Suresh Bora Nowgong
18 8 Kamakhaya Prasad Tasa Kaziranga
19 9 Topon Kumar Gogai Jorhat
20 10 Sarbananda Sonowal Dibrugarh
21 11 Pradhan Baruah Lakhimpur

Bihar

22 1 Sanjay Jaiswal Paschim Champaran
23 2 Radha Mohan Singh Purvi Champaran
24 3 Ashok Kumar Yadav Madhubani
25 4 Pradeep Kumar Singh Araria
26 5 Gopal Jee Thakur Darbhanga
27 6 Raj Bhushan Nishad Muzaffapur
28 7 Janardan Singh Sigriwal Maharajganj
29 8 Rajiv Pratap Rudy Saran
30 9 Nityanand Rai Ujiarpur
31 10 Giriraj Singh Begusarai
32 11 Ravi Shankar Prasad Patna Sahib
33 12 Ram Kripal Yadav Pataliputra
34 13 R.K. Singh Arrah
35 14 Mithilesh Tiwari Buxar
36 15 Shivesh Ram Sasaram SC
37 16 Sushil Kumar Singh Aurangabad
38 17 Vivek Thakur Nawada

Chandigarh

39 1 Sanjay Tandon Chandigarh

Chhattisgarh 

40 1 Chintamani Maharaj Sarguja
41 2 Radheshyam Rathia Raigarh
42 3 Kamlesh Jangde Janjgir-Champa
43 4 Saroj Pandey Korba
44 5 Tokhan Sahu Bilaspur
45 6 Santosh Pandey Rajnandgaon
46 7 Vijay Baghel Durg
47 8 Brijmohan Agarwal Raipur
48 9 Roop Kumari Choudhary Mahasamund
49 10 Mahesh Kashyap Bastar
50 11 Bhojraj Nag Kanker

Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu

51 1 Kalaben Delkar Dadar & Nagar Haveli
52 2 Lalubhai Patel Daman & Diu

Delhi

53 1 Manoj Tiwari North East Delhi
54 2 Praveen Khandelwal Chandni Chowk
55 3 Bansuri Swaraj New Delhi
56 4 Kamaljeet Sehrawat West Delhi
57 5 Ramvir Singh Bidhuri South Delhi
58 6 Harsh Malhotra East Delhi 
59 7 Yogendra Chandolia North West Delhi

Goa

60 1 Shripad Yesso Naik North Goa
61 2 Pallavi Shrinivas Dempo South Goa

Gujarat

62 1 Amit Shah Gandhinagar
63 2 Parshottam Rupala Rajkot
64 3 Mansukhbhai Mandaviya Porbandar
65 4 Vinodbhai Lakhmashi Chavda Kachchh
66 5 Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary Banaskantha
67 6 Bharatsinhji Dabhi Patan
68 7 Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana Ahmedabad West
69 8 Poonamben Maadam Jamnagar
70 9 Miteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel Anand
71 10 Devusinh Chauhan Kheda
72 11 Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav Panchmahal
73 12 Jasvantsinh Bhabhor Dahod
74 13 Mansukhbhai Vasava Bharuch
75 14 Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava Bardoli
76 15 C R Paatil Navsari
77 16 Bhikhaji Dudhaji Thakor Sabarkantha
78 17 Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel Ahmedabad East
79 18 Nimuben Bambhania Bhavnagar
80 19 Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt Vadodara
81 20 Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa Chhota Udaipur (ST)
82 21 Mukeshbhai Chandrakant Dalal Surat
83 22 Dhawal Patel Valsad
84 23 Haribhai Patel Mahesana
85 24 Shobhnaben Mahendrasinh Baraiya Sabarkantha
86 25 Chandubhai Chhaganbhai Shihora Surendranagar
87 26 Rajeshbhai Chudasama Junagadh
88 27 Bharatbhai Manubhai Sutariya Amreli
89 28 Heman Yogeshchandra Joshi Vadodara

Haryana 

90 1 Banto Kataria   Ambala 
91 2 Ashok Tanwar Sirsa (SC)
92 3 Manohar Lal Khattar  Karnal
93 4 Chaudhary Dharambir Singh Bhiwani-Mahendragarh
94 5 Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav  Gurgaon
95 6 Krishan Pal Gurjar Faridabad
96 7 Naveen Jindal Kurukshetra
97 8 Ranjit Chautala Hisar
98 9 Mohan Lal Badoli Sonipat
99 10 Arvind Kumar Sharma Rohtak

Himachal Pradesh 

100 1 Anurag Thakur Hamirpur
101 2 Suresh Kumar Kashyap Shimla (SC)
102 3 Rajeev Bharadwaj Kangra
103 4 Kangana Ranaut Mandi

Jammu & Kashmir

104 1 Jitendra Singh Udhampur
105 2 Jugal Kishore Sharma Jammu

Jharkhand

106 1 Nishikant Dubey Godda
107 2 Tala Marandi Rajmahal
108 3 Sunil Soren Dumka
109 4 Annapurna Devi Koderma
110 5 Sanjay Seth Ranchi
111 6 Vidhyut Baran Mahato Jamshedpur
112 7 Geeta Koda Singhbhum
113 8 Arjun Munda Khunti
114 9 Samir Oraon Lohardaga
115 10 Vishnu Dayal Ram Palamau
116 11 Manish Jaiswal Hazaribagh
117 12 Sita Soren Dumka ST
118 13 Kalicharan Singh Chatra
119 14 Dulu Mahato Dhanbad

Karnataka 

120 1 Annasaheb Shankar Jolle Chikkodi
121 2 P.C. Gaddigoudar Bagalkot
122 3 Ramesh Jigajinagi   Bijapur (SC)
123 4 Umesh G Jadhav Gulbarga (SC)
124 5 Bhagwanth Khuba Bidar
125 6 Basavaraj Kyavator Koppal
126 7 B. Sriramulu Bellary (ST)
127 8 Basavaraj Bommai    Haveri
128 9 Pralhad Joshi    Dharwad
129 10 Gayathri Siddeshwara    Davanagere
130 11 B Y Raghavendra   Shimoga
131 12 Kota Srinivas Poojar   Udupi Chikmagalur
132 13 Capt. Brijesh Chowta  Dakshina Kannada
133 14 V Somanna   Tumkur
134 15 Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar   Mysore
135 16 S Balaraj Chamarajanagar (SC)
136 17 C N Manjunath   Bangalore Rural 
137 18 Kumari Shobha Karandlaje   Bangalore North
138 19 P.C. Mohan Bangalore Central 
139 20 Tejasvi Surya   Bangalore South 
140 21 Jagadish Shettar Belgaum
141 22 Raja Amareshwara Naik Raichur ST
142 23 Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri Uttara Kannada
143 24 K. Sudhakar Chikkballapur

Kerala

144 1 M L Ashwini Kasaragod
145 2 C Raghunath Kannur
146 3 C Krishnakumar Palakkad
147 4 Suresh Gopi Thrissur
148 5 Rajiv Chandrasekhar Thiruvananthapuram
149 6 Prafulla Krishna Vadakara
150 7 M T Ramesh Kozhikode
151 8 Abdul Salam Malappuram
152 9 Niveditha Subramanian Ponnani
153 10 Shobha Surendran Alappuzha
154 11 Anil K Antony Pathanamthitta
155 12 V Muraleedharan Attingal
156 13 K. Surendran Wayanad
157 14 T.N. Sarasu Alathur SC
158 15 KS Radhakrishnan Ernakulam
159 16 G. Krishnakumar Kollam

Ladakh

160 1 Tashi Gyalson Ladakh


Madhya Pradesh

161 1 Jyotiraditya Scindia Guna
162 2 Shivmangal Singh Tomar Morena
163 3 Sandhya Rai Bhind
164 4 Bharat Singh Kushwaha Gwalior
165 5 Lata Wankhede Sagar
166 6 Virendra Khatik Tikamgarh
167 7 Rahul Lodhi Damoh
168 8 V D Sharma Khajuraho
169 9 Ganesh Singh Satna
170 10 Janardan Mishra Rewa
171 11 Rajesh Mishra Sidhi
172 12 Shivraj Singh Chouhan Vidisha
173 13 Himadri Singh Shahdol
174 14 Ashish Dubey Jabalpur
175 15 Darshan Singh Choudhary Hoshangabad
176 16 Rodmal Nagar Rajgarh
177 17 Mahendra Singh Solanki Dewas
178 18 Sudhir Gupta Mandsour
179 19 Anita Nagar Singh Chouhan Ratlam
180 20 Gyaneshwar Patil Khandwa
181 21 Durga Das Uikey Betul
182 22 Gajendra Patel Khargone
183 23 Faggan Singh Kulaste Mandla
184 24 Alok Sharma Bhopal
185 25 Bharti Pardhi    Balaghat
186 26 Vivek 'Bunty' Sahu    Chhindwara
187 27 Anil Firoziya   Ujjain (SC)
188 28 Savitri Thakur    Dhar (ST)
189 29   Shankar Lalwani Indore

Maharashtra 

190 1 Heena Vijaykumar Gavit Nandurbar (ST)
191 2 Subhash Ramrao Bhamre Dhule
192 3 Smita Wagh Jalgaon
193 4 Raksha Nikhil Khadase Raver
194 5 Anup Dhotre Akola
195 6 Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas Wardha
196 7 Nitin Jairam Gadkari Nagpur
197 8 Sudhir Mungantiwar Chandrapur
198 9 Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar Nanded
199 10 Raosaheb Dadarao Danve Jalna
200 11 Bharati Pravin Pawar Dindori (ST)
201 12 Kapil Moreshwar Patil Bhiwandi
202 13 Piyush Goyal Mumbai North
203 14 Mihir Kotecha Mumbai North East
204 15 Murlidhar Kisan Mohol Pune
205 16 Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil Ahmadnagar
206 17 Pankaja Munde Beed
207 18 Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangare Latur (SC)
208 19 Ranjeetsinha Hindurao Naik- Nimbalkar Madha
209 20 Sanjaykaka Patil Sangli
210 21 Sunil Baburao Mendhe Bhandara — Gondiya
211 22 Ashok Mahadev Rao Nete Gadchiroli-Chimur ST
212 23 Ram Satpute Solapur 
213 24 Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhonsle Satara
214 25 Narayan Rane Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg

Manipur

215 1 Thounaojam Basanta Kumar Singh Inner Manipur

Mizoram

216 1 Vanlalhmuaka Mizoram (ST)

Odisha

217 1 Pradeep Purohit Bargarh
218 2 Jual Oram Sundargarh ST
219 3 Dharmendra Pradhan Sambalpur
220 4 Ananta Nayak Keonjhar ST
221 5 Naba Charan Majhi Mayurbhanj ST
222 6 Pratap Chandra Sarangi Balasore
223 7 Avimanyu Sethi Bhadrak (SC)
224 8 Rudra Narayan Pany Dhenkanal
225 9 Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo Bolangir
226 10 Malvika Keshari Deo Kalahandi
227 11 Balabhadra Majhi Nabarangpur (ST)
228 12 Baijayant 'Jay' Panda Kendrapara
229 13 Bibhu Prasad Tarai Jagatsinghpur SC
230 14 Sambit Patra Puri
231 15 Aparajita Sarangi Bhubaneswar
232 16 Anita Subhadarshini Aska
233 17 Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy Berhampur
234 18 Kaleram Majhi Koraput ST
235 19 Rabindra Narayan Behera Jajpur (SC)
236 20 Sukanta Kumar Panigrahi Kandhamal
237 21 Bhartruhari Mahtab Cuttack

Puducherry

238 1 A Namassivayam  Puducherry

Punjab

239 1 Dinesh Singh "Babbu" Gurdaspur
240 2 Taranjit Singh Sandhu Amritsar
241 3 Sushil Kumar Rinku Jalandhar (SC)
242 4 Ravneet Singh Bittu Ludhiana
243 5 Hans Raj Hans Faridkot (SC)
244 6 Preneet Kaur Patiala
245 7 Manjeet Singh Manna Miawind Khadoor Sahib
246 8 Anita Som Parkash Hoshiarpur (SC)
247 9 Parampal Kaur Sidhu, IAS Bathinda

Rajasthan

248 1 Arjun Ram Meghwal Bikaner
249 2 Bhupender Yadav Alwar
250 3 Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Jodhpur
251 4 Mahendra Malviya Banswara
252 5 Mannalal Rawat Udaipur
253 6 C P Joshi Chittorgarh
254 7 Devendra Jhajharia Churu
255 8 Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati Sikar
256 9 Ramswaroop Koli Bharatpur
257 10 Jyoti Mirdha Nagaur
258 11 P P Chaudhary Pali
259 12 Kailash Choudhary Barmer
260 13 Om Birla Kota
261 14 Lumbaram Choudhary Jalore
262 15 Dushyant Singh Jhalawar-Baran
263 16 Priyanka Balan Ganganagar
264 17 Shubhkaran Choudhary Jhunjhunu
265 18 Rao Rajendra Singh Jaipur Rural
266 19 Manju Sharma Jaipur
267 20 Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria Tonk-Sawai Madhopur
268 21 Bhagirath Chaudhary Ajmer
269 22 Mahima Vishweswar Singh Rajsamand
270 23 Indu Devi Jatav Karauli-Dholpur (SC)
271 24 Kanhaiya Lal Meena Dausa
272 25 Damodar Agarwal Bhilwara

Sikkim 

273 1 Dinesh Chandra Nepal Sikkim

Tamil Nadu

274 1 Tamilisai Soundararajan Chennai South
275 2 Vinoj P Selvam Chennai Central
276 3 AC Shanmmugam Vellore
277 4 C Narsimhan Krishnagiri
278 5 L Murugan Nilgiris (SC)
279 6 K Annamalai Coimbatore
280 7 TR Paarivendhar Perambudur
281 8 Nainar Nagendran Thoothukkudi
282 9 Pon Radhakrishnan Kanyakumari
283 10 Pon V Balaganapathy   Tiruvallur
284 11 RC Paul Kanagaraj  Chennai (North)
285 12 A Ashwathaman  Tiruvannamalai
286 13 KP Ramalingam  Namakkal
287 14 AP Muruganandam  Tiruppur
288 15 K Vasantharajan  Pollachi
289 16 VV Senthilnathan  Karur
290 17 P Karthiyayini Chidambaram (SC)
291 18 SGM Ramesh  Nagapattinam
292 19 M Muruganandam  Thanjavur
293 20 Devanathan Yadav  Sivaganga
294 21 Raama Sreenivasan  Madurai
295 22 Raadhika Sarathkumar  Virudhunagar
296 23 B John Pandian  Tenkasi (SC)

Telangana

297 1  Bandi Sanjay Kumar Karimnagar
298 2  Arvind Dharmapuri Nizamabad
299 3  B.B. Patil Zahirabad
300 4  Etela Rajender Malkajgiri
301 5  G. Kishan Reddy Secundrabad
302 6 Madhavi Latha Hyderabad
303 7  Konda Vishweshwar Reddy Chelvella
304 8  P. Bharat Nagarkurnool SC
305 9  Boora Narsaiah Goud Bhongir
306 10 Godam Nagesh Adilabad (ST)
307 11 Gomasa Srinivas   Peddapalle (SC)
308 12 Madavaneni Raghunandan Rao Medak
309 13 D K Aruna Mahbubnagar
310 14 Saida Reddy Nalgonda 
311 15 Azmeera Seetaram Naik Mahabubabad (ST)
312 16 Aroori Ramesh Warangal SC
313 17 Tandra Vinod Rao Khammam

Tripura

314 1 Biplab Kumar Deb Tripura West
315 2 Kriti Singh Debbarma Tripura East (ST)

Uttarakhand

316 1 Ajay Tamta Almora
317 2 Mala Rajya Laxmi Saha Tehri Garhwal
318 3 Ajay Bhatt Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar
319 4 Anil Baluni Garhwal   
320 5 Trivendra Singh Rawat Haridwar

Uttar Pradesh

321 1 Pradeep Kumar Kairana
322 2 Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Muzaffarnagar
323 3 Om Kumar Nagina
324 4 Ghanshyam Lodhi Rampur
325 5 Parameshwar Lal Saini Sambhal
326 6 Kanwar Singh Tanwar Amroha
327 7 Mahesh Sharma Gautam Buddha Nagar
328 8 Bhola Singh Bulandshahr
329 9 Hema Malini Mathura
330 10 Satyapal Singh Baghel Agra
331 11 Raj Kumar Chahar Fatehpur Sikri
332 12 Rajveer Singh Etah
333 13 Dharmendra Kashyap Aonla
334 14 Arun Kumar Sagar Sahajahanpur
335 15 Ajay Mishra Teni Kheri
336 16 Rekha Verma Dhaurahra
337 17 Rajesh Verma Sitapur
338 18 Jai Prakash Rawat Hardoi
339 19 Ashok Kumar Rawat Misrikh
340 20 Sakshi Maharaj Unnao
341 21 Kaushal Kishore Mohanlalganj
342 22 Rajnath Singh Lucknow
343 23 Smriti Irani Amethi
344 24 Sangam Lal Gupta Pratagarh
345 25 Mukesh Rajput Farrukhabad
346 26 Ram Shankar Katheria Etawah
347 27 Subrat Pathak Kannauj
348 28 Devendra Singh 'Bhole' Akbarpur
349 29 Bhanu Prata Singh Verma Jalaun
350 30 Anurag Sharma Jhansi
351 31 Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel Hamirpur
352 32 RK Singh Patel Banda
353 33 Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Fatehpur
354 34 Upendra Singh Rawat Barabanki
355 35 Lallu Singh Faizabad
356 36 Ritesh Pande Ambedkar Nagar
357 37 Saket Mishra Shrawasti
358 38 Kirti Vardhan Singh Gonda
359 39 Jagdambika Pal Domariyaganj
360 40 Harish Dwivedi Basti
361 41 Praveen Kumar Nishad Sant Kabir Nagar
362 42 Pankaj Choudhary Maharaganj
363 43 Ravi Kishan Gorakhpur
364 44 Vijay Kumar Dubey Kushi Nagar
365 45 Kamlesh Paswan Bansgaon
366 46 Neelam Sonkar Lalganj
367 47 Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ Azamgarh
368 48 Ravindra Kushwaha Salempur
369 49 Kripashankar Singh Jaunpur
370 50 Mahendra Nath Pande Chandauli
371 51 Raghav Lakhanpal Saharanpur
372 52 Sarvesh Singh Moradabad
373 53 Arun Govil Meerut
374 54 Atul Garg Ghaziabad
375 55 Satish Gautam Aligarh
376 56 Anoop Valmiki Hathras SC
377 57 Durvijay Singh Shakya Badaun
378 58 Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar Bareilly
379 59 Jitin Prasada Pilibhit
380 60 Maneka Gandhi Sultanpur
381 61 Ramesh Awasthi Kanpur
382 62 Rajrani Rawat Barabanki SC
383 63 Anand Gond Bahraich SC
384 64 Jaiveer Singh Thakur Mainpuri
385 65 Vinod Sonkar Kaushambi
386 66 Praveen Patel Phulpur
387 67 Neeraj Tripathi Allahabad
388 68 Shri Neeraj Shekhar Ballia
389 69 Shri B.P. Saroj Machhlishahr
390 70 Paras Nath Rai Ghazipur
391 71  Vinod Kumar Bind Bhadohi
392 72 Thakur Vishwadeep Singh Firozabad
393 73 Shashank Mani Tripathi Deoria


West Bengal

394 1 Nisith Pramanik Cooch Behar
395 2 Manoj Tigga Alipurduars
396 3 Sukanta Majumdar Balurghat
397 4 Khagen Murmu Malda Uttar
398 5 Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury Malda Dakshin
399 6 Nirmal Kumar Saha Baharampur
400 7 Gauri Shankar Ghosh Murshidabad
401 8 Jagannath Sarkar Ranaghat
402 9 Anirban Ganguly Jadavpur
403 10 Rathin Chakraborty Howrah
404 11 Locket Chatterjee Hooghly
405 12 Soumendu Adhikari Kanthi
406 13 Hiranmay Chattopadhyay Ghatal
407 14 Jyotirmay Singh Mahato Purulia
408 15 Shubash Sarkar Bankura
409 16 Soumitra Khan Bishnupur
410 17 S.S. Ahluwalia Asansol
411 18 Priya Saha Bolpur
412 19 Shantanu Thakur Bongaon
413 20 Ashok Kandari Joynagar
414 21 Jayanta Roy Jalpaiguri SC
415 22 Raju Bista Darjeeling
416 23 Kartick Paul Raiganj
417 24 Dhananjay Ghosh Jangipur
418 25 Amrita Roy Krishnanagar
419 26 Arjun Singh Barrackpur
420 27 Silbhadra Dutta Dum Dum
421 28 Swapan Majumder Barasat
422 29 Rekha Patra Basirhat
423 30 Ashok Purkait Mathurapur SC
424 31 Debashree Chaudhary Kolkata Dakshin
425 32 Tapas Roy Kolkata Uttar
426 33 Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury Uluberia
427 34 Kabir Shankar Bose Sreerampur
428 35 Arup Kanti Digar Arambagh SC
429 36 Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay Tamluk
430 37 Agnimitra Paul Medinipur
431 38 Ashim Kumar Sarkar Bardhaman Purba SC
432 39 Dilip Ghosh Bardhaman — Durgapur
433 40  Pranat Tudu Jhargram (ST)
434 41 Debashish Dhar Birbhum
435 42 Abhijit Das (Bobby) Diamond Harbour

*This list will be updated as and when more names are announced 

In a notable shift for Delhi, several incumbents such as Ramesh Bidhuri, Parvesh Verma, Meenakshi Lekhi, and Harsh Vardhan have been dropped from their seats. Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of late BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, is set to make her electoral debut in the New Delhi constituency.

Changes in other regions include the dropping of Union ministers Meenakshi Lekhi and John Barla from their respective seats. 

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Prime Minister Modi has set ambitious targets for the BJP, aiming for at least 370 seats independently and over 400 for the NDA.

The BJP, which secured 303 seats in the 2019 polls, currently holds 290 seats in the Lok Sabha. Despite some resignations, the party remains focused on securing a strong mandate in the upcoming elections.