The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced 72 more candidates from across 11 states for the Lok Sabha elections. Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Thakur, Pralhad Joshi and Piyush Goyal and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai have found place in the second list.
The second list include for six seats in Telangana. The party had already announced candidates for nine out of the total 17 seats and two more seats have to be announced. Only Khammam and Warangal candidates have to be finalised.
The party has fielded party national vice president DK Aruna from Mahabubnagar, Ex MLA M Raghunandan Rao from Medak , Azmeera Sitaram Naik from Mahabubabad, Shanampudi Saidireddy from Nalgonda, G Nagesh from Adilabad and Gomasa Srinivas from Peddapalli. Among them, Sitaram Naik, Saidireddy and Nagesh joined BJP from BRS only two days ago.
Gadkari will contest from Nagpur in Maharashtra while Joshi has been fielded from Karnataka’s Dharwad. Goyal will contest from Mumbai North. Manohar Lal Khattar, who resigned as Haryana chief minister on Tuesday, has been fielded from Karnal.
Tejasvi Surya, the BJP’s youth wing chief, will seek re-election from Bengaluru South. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal family has replaced Pratap Simha as the BJP candidate in the Mysore seat.
In Delhi, the party has fielded two new candidates—Harsh Malhotra from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi. In Uttarakhand, Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal.
The BJP has also fielded ex-Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar from Sirsa (SC) dropping Sunita Duggal, while repeating Rao Inderjit from Gurugram, Dharambir Singh from Bhiwani Mahendragarh and Krishan Pal Gurjar from Faridabad.
