Lok Sabha election 2024: BJP names 72 candidates, Piyush Goyal, Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Thakur get ticket

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday, March 13, released a second list of 72 candidates with Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Nitin Gadkari, Pralhad Joshi and Anurag Thakur getting ticket to contest Lok Sabha elections.

Former chief ministers Basavaraj Bommai, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Manohar Lal Khattar are also named in the list. BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand.

In Delhi, it has fielded two new candidates — Harsh Malhotra from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi. In Karnataka, Union minister Pralhad Joshi will fight from Dharwad while former chief minister BS Yediyurappa's son BY Raghavendra will contest from Shimoga.

Tejasvi Surya, the BJP's youth wing chief, will seek re-election from Bengaluru South. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal family replaces Pratap Simha as the BJP candidate in the Mysore seat.

Earlier this month, the BJP had announced its first list of more than 190 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, due in April-May.

Here's the list of candidates: