Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on March 2 unveiled its first list of 195 contenders.
Thirty-four union ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Smriti Irani, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi are among the candidates the BJP has named in its first list of candidates for the upcoming polls.
Here's a state-wise breakdown of the full list of 195 BJP candidates:
Uttar Pradesh Varanasi - Narendra Modi
Kairana – Pradeep Kumar
Muzaffarnagar – Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Nagina – Om Kumar
Rampur – Ghanshyam Lodhi
Sambhal – Parameshvar Lal Saini
Amroha – Kanwar Singh Tanwar
Gautam Buddh Nagar – Mahesh Sharma
Bulandshahr – Bhola Singh
Mathura – Hema Malini
Agra – Satyapal Singh Baghel
Fatehpur Sikri – Raj Kumar Chahar
Etah – Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya)
Aonla – Dharmendra Kashyap
Shahjahanpur – Arun Kumar Sagar
Kheri – Ajay Mishra “Teni”
Dhaurahra – Rekha Verma
Sitapur – Rajesh Verma
Hardoi – Ja Prakash Rawat
Misrikh – Ashok Kumar Rawat
Mohanlalganj – Kaushal Kishore
Unnao – Sakshi Maharaj
Lucknow – Rajnath Singh
Amethi – Smriti Irani
Pratapgarh – Sangam Lal Gupta
Farrukhabad – Mukesh Rajput
Etawah – Ram Shankar Katheria
Kannauj – Subrat Pathak
Akbarpur – Devendra Singh “Bhole”
Jalaun – Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
Jhansi – Anurag Sharma
Hamirpur – Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel
Banda – RK Singh Patel
Fatehpur – Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
Barabanki – Upendra Singh Rawat
Faizabad – Lallu Singh
Ambedkar Nagar – Ritesh Pandey
Shrawasti – Saket Mishra
Gonda – Kirti Vardhan Singh Alias Raja Bhaiya
Domariyaganj – Jagdambika Pal
Basti – Harish Dwivedi
Sant Kabir Nagar – Praveen Kumar Nishad
Maharajganj – Pankaj Choudhary
Gorakhpur – Ravi Kishan
Kushi Nagar – Vijay Kumar Dubey
Bansgaon – Kamlesh Paswan
Lalganj – Neelam Sonkar
Azamgarh – Shri Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’
Salempur – Ravindra Kushwaha
Jaunpur – Kripashankar Singh
Chandauli – Mahendra Nath Pandey
Uttarakhand
Tehri Garhwal - Mala Rajya Laxmi Saha
Almora - Ajay Tamta
Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar - Ajay Bhatt
Jammu & Kashmir
Udhampur - Dr Jitendra Singh
Jammu - Jugal Kishore Sharma
Jharkhand
Rajmahal – Tala Marandi
Dumka – Sunil Soren
Jamshedpur – Nishikant Dubey
Godda – Annapurna Devi
Kodarma – Vidhyut Baran Mahato
Ranchi – Sanjay Seth
Singhbhum – Geeta Koda
Khunti – Arjun Munda
Lohardaga – Samir Oraon
Palamau – Vishnu Dayal Ram
Hazaribagh – Manish Jaiswal
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram – Rajiv Chandrasekhar
Kasaragod – ML Ashwini
Kannur – C Raghunath
Vadakara – Prafulla Krishna
Kozhikode – MT Ramesh
Malappuram – Abdul Salam
Ponnani – Niveditha Subramanian
Palakkad – C Krishnakumar
Thrissur – Suresh Gopi
Alappuzha – Shobha Surendran
Pathanamthitta – Anil K Antony
Attingal – V Muraleedharan
Goa
North Goa - Shripad Nesso Naik
Madhya Pradesh
Morena – Shivmangal Singh Tomar
Bhind – Sandhya Rai
Gwalior – Bharat Singh Kushwaha
Guna – Jyotiraditya Scindia
Sagar – Lata Wankhede
Tikamgarh – Virendra Khatik
Damoh – Rahul Lodhi
Khajuraho – VD Sharma
Satna – Ganesh Singh
Rewa – Janardan Mishra
Sidhi – Dr Rajesh Mishra
Shahdol – Himadri Singh
Jabalpur – Ashish Dubey
Mandla – Faggan Singh Kulaste
Hoshangabad – Darshan Singh Choudhary
Vidisha – Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Bhopal – Alok Sharma
Rajgarh – Rodmal Nagar
Dewas – Mahendra Singh Solanki
Mandsour – Sudhir Gupta
Ratlam – Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan
Khargone – Gajendra Patel
Khandwa – Gyaneshwar Patil
Betul – Durga Das Uikey
Rajasthan Kota – Om BirlaBikaner – Arjun Ram Meghwal
Churu – Devendra Jhajharia
Sikar – Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati
Alwar – Bhupender Yadav
Bharatpur – Ramswaroop Koli
Nagaur – Jyoti Mirdha
Pali – PP Chaudhary
Jodhpur – Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Barmer – Kailash Choudhary
Jalore – Lumbaram Choudhary
Udaipur – Mannalal Rawat
Banswara – Mahendra Malviya
Chittorgarh – CP Joshi
Jhalawar-Baran – Dushyant Singh
Telangana
Karimnagar – Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Nizamabad – Arvind Dharmapuri
Zahirabad – BB Patil
Malkajgiri – Etela Rajender
Secundrabad – G Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad – Dr Madhavi Latha
Chelvella – Kenda Vishweshwar Reddy
Nagarkurnool – P Bharat
Bhongir – Boora Narsaiah Goud
Tripura
Tripura West - Biplab Kumar Deb
West Bengal
Cooch Behar – Nisith Pramanik
Alipurduars – Manoj Tigga
Balurghat – Sukanta Majumdar
Maldaha Uttar – Khagen Murmu
Maldaha Dakshin – Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury
Baharampur – Nirmal Kumar Saha
Murshidabad – Gauri Shankar Ghosh
Ranaghat – Jagannath Sarkar
Bangaon – Shantanu Thakur
Joynagar – Ashok Kandari
Jadavpur – Anirban Ganguly
Hooghly – Locket Chhatterjee
Howrah – Rathin Chakraborty
Kanthi – Soumendu Adhikari
Ghatal – Hiranmay Chattopadhyay
Purulia – Jyotirmay Singh Mahato
Bankura- Subhash Sarkar
Bishnupur – Soumitra Khan
Asansol – Soumitra Khan
Bolpur – Priya Saha
Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
Daman & Diu – Lalubhai Patel
Delhi
Chandni Chowk – Praveen Khandelwal
North East Delhi – Manoj Tiwari
New Delhi – Bansuri Swaraj
West Delhi- Kamaljeet Sehrawat
South Delhi – Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
Chhattisgarh
Sarguja – Chintamani Maharaj
Raigarh – Radheshyam Rathia
Janjgir-Champa – Kamlesh Jangde
Korba – Sushri Saroj Pandey
Bilaspur – Tokhan Sahu
Rajnandgaon – Santosh Pandey
Durg – Vijay Baghel
Raipur – Brijmohan Agarwal
Mahasamund – Roop Kumari Choudhary
Bastar – Mahesh Kashyap
Kanker – Bhojraj Nag
Gujarat
Gandhinagar – Amit Shah
Kachchh – Vinodbhai Lakhmashi Chavda
Banaskantha – Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary
Patan – Bharatsinhji Dabhi
Ahmedabad West – Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana
Rajkot – Parshottam Rupala
Porbandar – Mansukhbhai Mandaviya
Jamnagar – Poonamben Maadam
Anand – Miteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel
Kheda – Devusinh Chauhan
Panchmahal – Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav
Dahod – Jasvantsinh Bhabhor
Bharuch – Mansukhbhai Vasava
Bardoli – Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava
Navsari – CR Patil
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal West – Kiren Rijiju
Arunachal East – Tapir Gao
Assam
Karinganj - Kripanath Mallah
Silchar - Parimal Suklabaidya
Autonomous District - Amar Singh Tisso
Gauhati - Bijuli Kalita Medhi
Mangaldoi - Dilip Saikia
Tezpur - Ranjit Dutta
Nowgong- Suresh Bora
Kaliabor - Kamakhya Prasad Tasa
Jorhat - Topon Kumar Gogoi
Dibrugarh - Sarbananda Sonowal
Lakhimpur - Pradhan Baruah
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Andaman & Nicobar Islands – Bishnu Pada Ray
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