Lok Sabha election 2024: Here are 10 key takeaways from BJP's second list

Recently, the BJP had announced its first list of more than 190 candidates.

The BJP’s second list has 72 candidates from 11 states and Union Territories including ministers such as Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Anurag Thakur and Pralhad Joshi.

According to reports, the list was released after an eleven-hour negotiation over one seat in Bihar. Candidates were declared for two seats in Delhi, seven in Gujarat, six in Haryana, two in Himachal Pradesh, 20 in Karnataka, five in Madhya Pradesh, 20 seats in Maharashtra, six seats in Telangana, one in Tripura and two in Uttarakhand. Candidates have also been announced for Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

Here are the 10 key takeaways from the list

-Three former chief ministers-Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana), Basavaraj Bommai (Karnataka) and Trivendra Singh Rawat- were named in the list. While Khattar will contest from Karnal and Bommai will contest from Haveri and Rawat from Hardwar.

- Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur and Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North are the major candidates fielded from Maharashtra. The BJP will be contesting the election in alliance with Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's NCP.

- Union minister Piyush Goyal will be fighting his first Lok Sabha elections from Mumbai North. Currently, Goyal is a Rajya Sabha member.

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-  The BJP has fielded two new candidates from the national capital. Harsh Malhotra will contest from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from Northwest Delhi. The party dropped sitting MPs Gautam Gambhir and Hans Raj Hans.

- Manohar Lal Khattar, who resigned from the post of Haryana chief minister, will contest from the Karnal assembly constituency.

- The party has fielded heavyweights in Karnataka. Union minister Pralhad Joshi will be fighting from Dharwad, former chief minister BS Yediyurappa's son BY Raghavendra from Shimoga. Bengaluru South sitting MP Tejasvi Surya will fight from his Bengaluru South seat while Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar will replace Pratap Simha in Mysore. Former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai will contest from Haveri.

-   Instead of Pratap Simha, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal family was declared the candidate for the Mysuru seat. Simha was involved in a controversy as he signed the passes of the intruders to Parliament. This led to a major security breach.

-  Former Karnataka BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel has been dropped from Dakshina Kannada.  Brijesh Chowta, who has served in the Army, will contest from there.

- Haryana leader Ashok Tanwar joined the BJP in January. The former AAP leader replaced sitting MP Sunita Duggal in Sirsa in Haryana.

-Late BJP leader Gopinath Munde's daughter, Pankaja Munde, will be contesting from Beed, her sister Pritam Munde's constituency.

Recently, the BJP had announced its first list of more than 190 candidates for the Lok Sabha election which is scheduled to be held in April-May.