Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP unveils initial roster of 195 candidates, securing approval for key figures, including PM Modi

In view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released the first list of 195 candidates. The Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA will be seen winning 543 seats and in this list, it has finalised the first list of names of 195 candidates. 28 female candidates are also included in the first list of BJP candidates. Candidates have been fielded from 51 seats in Uttar Pradesh. 

The names of many high-profile leaders have also been approved in the first list released by the BJP, regarding which the BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) held a meeting until late Thursday night and in this meeting every Lok Sabha seat was discussed. 

Narendra Modi will be the candidate from Varanasi!

Narendra Modi from Varanasi, Vishnupara from Andaman Nicobar, Kurpalal Mallah from Assam (scheduled seat), Ranjit Dutta from Tezpur, Kiran Rijiju from Arunachal West, Sarbananda Sonewal from Assam (Dibrugarh), Saroj Pandey from Korba, Dadra, Lalibhai Patel, Praveen Khanledwal from Chandni Chowk (Delhi), Manoj Tiwari will contest from the North East (Delhi), Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi, Ramveer Singh Vidhuri from West Delhi, Kamaljeet Sehrawat from West Delhi, Ramveer Singh from South Delhi and Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar.

Amit Shah from Gandhi Nagar!

Amit Shah from Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat, Purushottam Rupala from Rajkot, Devu Singh Chauhan from Kheda, Mansukh Bhai Basava from Bharuch, CR Patil from Navsari, Jitendra Singh from Jammu and Kashmir (Udhampur), Jugal Kishore Sharma from Jammu, Geeta Koda from Jharkhand. The BJP has made Arjun Munda, Sameer Orav, Annapurna Devi and Sanjay Seth its candidates.

From Chhattisgarh, Brijmohan Agarwal, Vijay Baghel, Santosh Pandey, Roop Kumari Choudhary, Mahesh Kashyap, Bhojraj Nag, Saroj Pandey, Tokhan Sahu, Radhe Shyam Rathiya, Kamlesh Jangde, and Chintamani Maharaj have been made Lok Sabha candidates.
Veterans from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan fielded

Jyotiraditya Guna, Anil Antony Kerala, Lata Wankhede Sagar, VD Sharma Khajuraho, Ganesh Singh Satna, Janardan Rewa, Himadri Singh Shahdol, Ashish Dubey Jabalpur, Faggan Singh Kulaste Mandla, Shivraj Chauhan Vidisha, Sudhir Gupta Mandsaur, Gajendra Patel Khargone, Dnyaneshwar Patil Khandwa. , Durgadas Betul, VD Sharma Khajuraho, Sumedhanand Saraswati Sikar, Bhupendra Yadav Alwar, Jyoti Mirdha Nagaur, PP Chaudhary Pali, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Jodhpur, Kailash Chaudhary Barmer, CP Joshi Chittorgarh, Om Birla Kota and Dushyant Singh will contest from Jhalawar. 

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Many high-profile faces cut tickets

In this list, the Bharatiya Janata Party has not placed bets on those MPs whose performance has not been satisfactory and this is the reason why some Union Ministers have not been fielded this time. Looking at the first list, BJP has canceled the tickets of about 60-70 MPs, which include Rajendra Aggarwal from Meerut, Satyadev Pachauri from Kanpur, Rita Joshi from Prayagraj, Ramapati Ram Tripathi from Deoria, Santosh Gangwar from Bareilly, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank from Haridwar, and the names of Tirath Singh Rawat from Pauri seat, Rani Rajlakshmi Shah from Tehri seat and Ajay Tamta from Almora are also included.

Apart from these, tickets of 5 MPs from Delhi have also been cut and this time Bansuri Swaraj and Kapil Mishra have been given a chance among the new faces. The party has given a second chance to Hema Malini from Mathura and Mahesh Sharma from Noida.

The names of these greats were also stamped

Bharatiya Janata Party has also approved many big names of Rajasthan in this list and has given a chance to Arjun Ram Meghwal, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, CP Joshi, Rajendra Rathore, Satish Poonia, Mahendra Jeet Malviya and Ramcharan Bohra. Kapil Mishra, Bansuri Swaraj, Pravesh Verma and Ramesh Bidhuri have been given a chance in Delhi.

BJP has repeated three MPs from Telangana, GK Reddy, Arvind Dharmapuri and Sanjay Bandi, while candidates have been changed on all five seats in Uttarakhand. BJP is fielding Deepti Rawat, Rekha Arya, former CM Trivendra Singh Rawat and Suresh Bhatt here.

Seat-sharing formula of allies also released

Talking about West Bengal, Locket Chatterjee, Roopa Ganguly, Raju Visht, Shantanu Thakur, Jagannath Sarkar, Nishit Pramanik and Dilip Ghosh have been given a chance. Pratima Bhowmik and Jishnu Dev Verma have been made candidates from Tripura. In Assam, BJP has announced to contest elections on 11 seats while it has reached an agreement with its allies on three seats.

In UP, BJP will contest on 74 seats while Apna Dal (Sone Lal Patel) will contest on two seats, in western Uttar Pradesh Rashtriya Lok Dal is likely to get two seats, Om Prakash Rajbhar's SPBSP on one seat and Sanjay Nishad's party Will contest elections on one seat.