The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday announced its fifth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.
The list includes ex-Congress minister who joined BJP, Naveen Jindal contesting from Kurukshetra, actor Kangana Ranaut from Mandi, Jitin Prasad from Pilbhit, actor Arun Govil from Meerut, Dilip Ghosh from Bardhman-Durgapur, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay from Tamluk.
The other BJP leaders who find mention in the list include, Sambit Patra contesting from Puri, Arjun Singh from Barrackpur, Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur and Dharmendra Pradhan from Sambalpur.
Jitin Prasad's candidacy from Pilbhit replaces Varun Gandhi's from the previous polls.
Here's the full list:
| Candidate | Seat |
| Andhra Pradesh | |
| Kothapalli Geetha | Araku ST |
| CM Ramesh | Anakapalle |
| D Purandareshwari | Rajahmundry |
| Bupathiraju Srinivas Varma | Narsapuram |
| Varaprasad Rao | Tirupati SC |
| N. Kiran Kumar Reddy | Rajampet |
| Bihar | |
| Sanjay Jaiswal | Paschim Champaran |
| Radha Mohan Singh | Purvi Champaran |
| Ashok Kumar Yadav | Madhubani |
| Pradeep Kumar Singh | Araria |
| Gopal Jee Thakur | Darbhanga |
| Raj Bhushan Nishad | Muzaffarpur |
| Janardan Singh Sigriwal | Maharajganj |
| Rajiv Pratap Rudy | Saran |
| Nityanand Rai | Ujjarpur |
| Giriraj Singh | Begusarai |
| Ravi Shankar Prasad | Patna Sahib |
| Ram Kripal Yadav | Pataliputra |
| R.K. Singh | Arrah |
| Mithilesh Tiwari | Buxar |
| Shivesh Ram | Sasaram SC |
| Sushil Kumar Singh | Aurangabad |
| Vivek Thakur | Nawada |
| Goa | |
| Pallavi nivas Dempo | South Goa |
| Gujarat | |
| Haribhai Patel | Mahesana |
| Shobhnaben Mahendrasinh Baraiya | Sabarkantha |
| Chandubhai Chhaganbhai Shihora | Surendranagar |
| Rajeshbhai Chudasama | Junagadh |
| Bharatbhai Manubhai Sutariya | Amreli |
| Heman Yogeshchandra Joshi | Vadodara |
| Haryana | |
| Naveen Jindal | Kurukshetra |
| Ranit Chautala | Hisar |
| Mohan Lal Badoli | Sonipat |
| Arvind Kumar Sharma | Rohtak |
| Himachal Pradesh | |
| Rajeev Bharadwaj | Kangra |
| Kangana Ranaut | Mandi |
| Jharkhand | |
| Sita Soren | Dumka ST |
| Kalicharan Singh | Chatra |
| Dulu Mahato | Dhanbad |
| Karnataka | |
| Jagadish Shettar | Belgaum |
| Raja Amareshwara Naik | Raichur ST |
| Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri | Uttara Kannada |
| K. Sudhakar | Chikkballapur |
| Kerala | |
| K. Surendran | Wayanad |
| T.N. Sarasu | Alathur SC |
| KS Radhakrishnan | Ernakulam |
| G. Krishnakumar | Kollam |
| Maharashtra | |
| Sunil Baburao Mendhe | Bhandara — Gondiya |
| Ashok Mahadev Rao Nete | Gadchiroli-Chimur ST |
| Ram Satpute | Solapur SC |
| Mizoram | |
| Vanlalhmuaka | Mizoram (ST) |
| Odisha | |
| Pradeep Purohit | Bargarh |
| Jual Oram | Sundargarh ST |
| Dharmendra Pradhan | Sambalpur |
| Ananta Nayak | Keonjhar ST |
| Naba Charan Majhi | Mayurbhani ST |
| Pratap Chandra Sarangi | Balasore |
| Avimanyu Sethi | Bhadrak (SC) |
| Rudra Narayan Pany | Dhenkanal |
| Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo | Bolangir |
| Malvika Keshari Deo | Kalahandi |
| Balabhadra Majhi | Nabarangpur (ST) |
| Baijayant 'Jay' Panda | Kendrapara |
| Bibhu Prasad Tarai | Jagatsinghpur SC |
| Sambit Patra | Puri |
| Aparajita Sarangi | Bhubaneswar |
| Anita Subhadarshini | Aska |
| Pradee Kumar Panigrahy | Berhampur |
| Kaleram Mahi | Koraput ST |
| Rajasthan | |
| Priyanka Balan | Ganganagar |
| Shubhkaran Choudhary | Jhunjhunu |
| Rao Rajendra Singh | Jaipur Rural |
| Manju Sharma | Jaipur |
| Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria | Tonk-Sawai Madhopur |
| Bhagirath Chaudhary | Ajmer |
| Mahima Vishweswar Singh | Rajsamand |
| Sikkim | |
| Dinesh Chandra Nepal | Sikkim |
| Telangana | |
| Aroori Ramesh | Warangal SC |
| Tandra Vinod Rao | Khammam |
| Uttar Pradesh | |
| Raghav Lakhanpal | Saharanpur |
| Sarvesh Singh | Moradabad |
| Arun Govil | Meerut |
| Atul Garg | Ghaziabad |
| Satish Gautam | Aligarh |
| Anoo Valmiki | Hathras SC |
| Durvijay Singh Shakya | Badaun |
| Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar | Bareilly |
| Jitin Prasada | Pilibhit |
| Maneka Gandhi | Sultanpur |
| Ramesh Awasthi | Kanpur |
| Rajrani Rawat | Barabanki SC |
| Arvind Gond | Bahraich SC |
| West Bengal | |
| Jayanta Roy | Jalpaiguri SC |
| Raju Bista | Darjeeling |
| Kartick Paul | Raiganj |
| Dhananjay Ghosh | Jangipur |
| Rajmata Amrita Ro | Krishnanagar |
| Arjun Singh | Barrackpur |
| Silbhadra Dutta | Dum Dum |
| Swapan Majumder | Barasat |
| Rekha Patra | Basirhat |
| Ashok Purkait | Mathura SC |
| Su Debashree Chaudhary | Kolkata Dakshin |
| Tapas Ro | Kolkata Uttar |
| Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury | Uluberia |
| Kabir Shankar Bose | Sreerampur |
| Arup Kanti Digar | Arambagh SC |
| Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay | Tamluk |
| Agnimitra Paul | Medinipur |
| Ashim Kumar Sarkar | Bardhaman Purba SC |
| Dilip Ghosh | Bardhaman — Durgapur |
First Published: Mar 25, 2024 8:28 AM IST
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