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Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far

The BJP has announced the names of 306 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in seven lists released so far, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi and party chief Amit Shah from Gandhinagar. The lists include almost all candidates for those seats where polling will be held in first two phases.

NEW DELHI: The BJP has announced the names of 306 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in seven lists released so far, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi and party chief Amit Shah from Gandhinagar. The lists include almost all candidates for those seats where polling will be held in first two phases. On Sunday, the saffron party released a list of its nine more Lok Sabha candidates. The list feature six candidates for Chhattisgarh and one each for Meghalaya, Maharashtra and Telangana. In the first list released Thursday the party announced the names of 184 candidates, including the prime minister and the BJP chief. Later on the same day, the party announced its candidate for Daman and Diu constituency as well. The party released three lists on Friday and one on Saturday.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh will again contest from Lucknow while party's senior leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib in Bihar and national spokesperson Sambit Patra from Puri in Odisha. The party fielded Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Jayant Sinha, Shripad Naik from Morena (Madhya Pradesh), Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), North Goa seats respectively. Party leader Anurag Thakur has been renominated from Hamirpur. Veteran party leader and sitting Kangra MP Shanta Kumar has been replaced by Kishan Kapoor as the BJP nominee from Kangra in Himachal Pradesh. With these candidates, the party has so far announced the name of its 309 candidates for the election to the 543-member Lok Sabha which will held in seven phases beginning on 11 April and ending on 19 May. The counting will take place on May 23. Here's the complete list of BJP candidates released by the party so far Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so farLok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so farLok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far The names of its 17 candidates for Bihar Lok Sabha seats were shared with media by the BJP in a joint press conference with its allies in Patna. The party is contesting on 40 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar in alliance with JD(U) and the LJP, where both BJP and JD(U) will fight on 17 seats each and the LJP on remaining six. Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so farLok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far The party fielded Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Jayant Sinha, Shripad Naik from Morena (Madhya Pradesh), Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), North Goa seats respectively. Party leader Anurag Thakur has been renominated from Hamirpur.  Veteran party leader and sitting Kangra MP Shanta Kumar has been replaced by Kishan Kapoor as the BJP nominee from Kangra in Himachal Pradesh. Lok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so farLok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so farLok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so farLok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so farLok Sabha elections: Here's complete list of BJP candidates released by party so far
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