In the second list, BJP has 1 candidate from Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli, 2 from Delhi, 7 from Gujarat, 6 from Haryana, 2 from Himachal Pradesh, 20 from Karnataka, 5 from Madhya Pradesh, 20 from Maharashtra, 6 from Telangana, 6 from Tripura. 1 candidate has been announced from Uttarakhand and 2 candidates have been announced.
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Khattar from Karnal and Ashok Tanwar from Sirsa.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has been made the candidate from Karnal. Manohar Lal Khattar had resigned from the post of Chief Minister on Tuesday itself, after which BJP handed over the command of the state to Naib Singh Saini. Along with this, the party also broke its alliance with JJP. On the other hand, Ashok Tanwar has been given ticket from Sirsa. Ashok Tanwar had won this seat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections on Congress ticket. Later he left Congress and joined Aam Aadmi Party. Then he left Aam Aadmi Party and joined BJP.
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Banto Kataria will contest from Ambala (SC) seat
Banto Kataria has been made the candidate from Ambala (SC) seat. Banto is the wife of Ratan Lal Kataria, who won the elections in 2019, who died in the year 2023. Only sitting MPs from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh (Chaudhary Dharambir Singh), Gurgaon (Chaudhary Inderjit Singh Yadav) and Faridabad (Krishna Pal Gurjar) have been made candidates.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur to contest from Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur, former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai to contest from Haveri, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya to contest from Bangalore South, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to contest from Nagpur, Union Minister Piyush Goyal to contest… https://t.co/FMsQL4yX1M
— ANI (@ANI) March 13, 2024
Candidates also announced for the remaining 5 seats of Madhya Pradesh
Candidates have also been announced for the remaining 5 Lok Sabha seats out of 29 in Madhya Pradesh. Dr. Bharti Pardhi from Balaghat, Vivek 'Bunty' Sahu from Chhindwara, Anil Firojia from Ujjain (SC), Savitri Thakur from Dhar (ST) and Shankar Lalwani from Indore have been made candidates. In the second list, Shankar Lalwani from Indore and Anil Firoziya from Ujjain have again got tickets. At the same time, the ticket of sitting MP Chhatar Singh Darbar from Dhar and Dhal Singh Bisen from Balaghat has been canceled. Nathan Shah was given the ticket in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Chhindwara, but he lost to Nakulnath. BJP has given Lok Sabha election tickets to a total of six women in Madhya Pradesh.
Congress's second list: 33 out of 43 backward faces, 4 women; 25 to less than 50
47 candidates below 50 years of age in BJP's first list
BJP had released the first list on March 2. In this, 195 names were announced in 16 states and 2 union territories. The party gave tickets to 34 Union ministers. In the first list, 28 women, 27 SC, 18 ST and 57 OBC faces have been given tickets. There were 47 candidates below 50 years of age, whom the party has nominated.
PM Narendra Modi will contest elections from Varanasi for the third time
According to the first list, PM Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi for the third time and Home Minister Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar in Gujarat. Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has got the ticket from Vidisha, former Tripura CM Biplab Deb has got the ticket from Tripura West and former Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal has got the ticket from Dibrugarh.
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