BJP candidate list: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its fourth list of Lok Sabha candidates marking a significant development in the upcoming Lok Sahba elections in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu. The fourth list of BJP comes a day after the saffron-party released its third list of candidates for the polls on Thursday.  Among the notable names in this list is veteran actor Radhika Sarathkumar, who has been nominated to contest from the Virudhunagar constituency. The development comes after Radhika's husband Sarath Kumar merged his Akila Indiya Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) with the BJP two weeks back. 

Radhika's nomination also comes at a time when speculations are rife that DMDK chief Vijayakanth's son Shanmuga Pandian will contest from Virudhunagar consituency. 

BJP Fourth Candidate List

BJP high command released a list of 15 candidates and their constituencies:

Puducherry - A Namassivayam Tiruvallur (SC) - Balaganapathy Chennai North - Paul Kanagaraj Tiruvannamalai - Ashwathaman Namakkal - KP Ramalingam Tiruppur - AP Muruganandam Pollachi - Vasantharajan Karur - VV Senthilnathan Chidambaram (SC) - Karthiyayini Nagapattinam (SC) - SGM Ramesh Thanjavur - MuruganandamSivaganga - Devanathan YadavVirudhunagar - Radhika Sarathkumar Madurai - Raama Sreenivasan Tenkasi - John Pandian.

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The candidate in the third list included Tamilisai Soundararajan (Chennai South), Vinoj P Selvam (Chennai Central), AC Shanmmugam (Vellore), C Narsimhan (Krishnagiri), L Murugan (Nilgiris), K Annamalai (Coimbatore), TR Paarivendhar (Perambudur), Nainar Nagendran (Thoothukkudi) and Pon Radhakrishnan (Kanniyakumari).

Previously, the BJP announced 267 candidates in two lists released on March 2 and March 13. The initial list, comprising 195 names, included prominent figures such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Kiren Rijiju, Tapir Gao, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Ajay Mishra Teni, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, and Nisith Pramanick, among others.

Tamil Nadu is set to vote for Lok Sabha Polls on April 19.