The 2024 Lok Sabha Election will be held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is helming the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), is seeking a third term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The BJP has given special focus to the southern States where it has not been able to manage many seats, barring Karnataka. The party has till now declared candidates for 430 seats and has released 12 lists of candidates.
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While PM Modi is recontesting from Varanasi, the party has dropped some senior leaders such as Mansukh Mandviya and Harsh Vardhan, both served as Health Ministers in the Cabinet. While Rajya Sabha member and Minister L. Murugan is contesting from Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, IT Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar is contesting against Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala’s capital.
BJP State president K. Surendran is contesting from Wayanad against former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
Adding a tint of celebrity politics, the party has fielded Suresh Gopi, Krishnakumar and Kangana Ranaut in Thrissur, Kollam and Mandi constituencies respectively.
Here is the full list of candidates contesting from BJP.
Jammu and Kashmir (No. of constituencies:5)
No. Constituency Candidates
1. Udhampur - Jitendra Singh
2. Jammu - Jugal Kishore Sharma
Puducherry (No.of constituencies-1)
1. Puducherry - A.Namassivayam
Delhi (No.of constituencies-7)
1. Chandni Chowk - Praveen Khandelwal
2. North East Delhi - Manoj Tiwari
3. East Delhi - Harsh Malhotra
4. New Delhi - Bansuri Swaraj
5. North West Delhi - Yogender Chandolia
6. West Delhi - Kamaljeet Sehrawat
7. South Delhi - Ramvir Singh Bidhur
Dadra And Nagar Haveli And Daman And Diu (No.of constituencies-2)
1. Dadra and Nagar Haveli - Kalaben Delkar
2. Daman and Diu - Lalubhai Pate
Chandigarh (No.of constituencies-11)
1. Sarguja (ST) - Chintamani Maharaj
2. Raigarh (ST) - Radheshyam Rathia
3. Janjgir-Champa (SC) - Kamlesh Jangde
4. Korba - Saroj Pandey
5. Bilaspu - Tokhan Sahu
6. Rajnandgaon - Santosh Pandey
7. Durg - Vijay Baghel
8. Raipur - Brijmohan Agrawal
9. Mahasamund - Roop Kumari Choudhary
10. Bastar (SC) - Mahesh Kashyap
11. Kanker (SC) - Bhojraj Nag
West Bengal (No.of constituencies-42)
1. Cooch Behar (SC) - Nisith Pramanik
2. Alipurduars (ST) - Manoj Tigga
3. Jalpaiguri (SC) - Jayanta Kumar Roy
4. Darjeeling - Raju Bista
5. Raiganj - Kartick Paul
6. Balurghat - Sukanta Majumdar
7. Maldaha Uttar - Khagen Murmu
8. Maldaha Dakshin - Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury
9. Jangipur - Dhananjay Ghosh
10. Baharampur - Nirmal Kumar Saha
11. Murshidabad - Gouri Shankar Ghosh
12. Krishnanagar - Amrita Roy
13. Ranaghat (SC) - Jagannath Sarkar
14. Bangaon (SC) - Shantanu Thakur
15. Barrackpur - Arjun Singh
16. Dum Dum - Shilbhadra Dutta
17. Barasat - Swapan Majumder
18. Basirhat - Rekha Patra
19. Jaynagar (SC) - Ashok Kandari
20. Mathurapur (SC) - Ashok Purkait
21. Diamond Harbour - Abhijith Das Bobby
22. Jadavpur - Anirban Ganguly
23. Kolkata Dakshin - Debasree Chaudhuri
24. Kolkata Uttar - Tapas Roy
25. Howrah - Rathin Chakraborty
26. Uluberia - Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury
27. Serampore - Kabir Sankar Bose
28. Hooghly - Locket Chatterjee
29. Arambagh (SC) - Arup Kanti Digar
30. Tamluk - Abhijit Gangopadhyay
31. Kanthi - Soumendu Adhikari
32. Ghatal - Hiran Chatterjee
33. Jhargram (ST) - Pranat Tudu
34. Medinipur - Agnimitra Paul
35. Purulia - Jyotirmay Singh Mahato
36. Bankura - Subhas Sarkar
37. Bishnupur (SC) - Saumitra Khan
38. Bardhaman Purba(SC) - Ashim Kumar Sarkar
39. Bardhaman-Durgapur - Dilip Ghosh
40. Asansol - S. S. Ahluwalia
41. Bolpur (SC) - Priya Saha
42. Birbhum - Debashish Dhar
Uttarakhand (No.of constituencies-5)
1. Tehri Garhwal - Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
2. Garhwal - Anil Baluni
3. Almora (SC) - Ajay Tamta
4. Nainital Udhamsingh Nagar - Ajay Bhatt
5. Haridwar - Trivendra Singh Rawat
Uttar Pradesh (No.of constituencies-80)
1. Saharanpur - Raghav Lakhanpal
2. Kairana Pradeep - Kumar Chaudhary
3. Muzaffarnagar - Sanjeev Balyan
4. Nagina - Om Kumar
5. Moradabad - Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh
6. Rampur - Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi
7. Sambhal - Parmeshwar Lal Saini
8. Amroha - Kanwar Singh Tanwar
9. Meerut - Arun Govil
10.Ghaziabad - Atul Garg
11. Gautam Buddh Nagar- Mahesh Sharma
12. Bulandshahr - Bhola Singh
13. Aligarh - Satish Kumar Gautam
14. Hathras - Anoop Pradhan
15. Mathura - Hema Malini
16. Agra - S. P. Singh Baghel
17. Fatehpur Sikri - Raj Kumar Chahar
18. Firozabad - Thakur Vishwadeep Singh
19. Mainpuri - Thakur Jaivir Singh
20. Etah - Rajveer Singh
21. Badaun - Durvijay Singh Shakya
22. Aonla - Dharmendra Kashyap
23. Bareilly - Chhtrapal Singh Gangwar
24. Pilibhit - Jitin Prasada
25. Shahjahanpur - Arun Kumar Sagar
26. Kheri - Ajay Mishra Teni
27. Dhaurahra - Rekha Verma
28. Sitapur - Rajesh Verma
29. Hardoi - Jai Prakash Rawat
30. Misrikh - Ashok Kumar Rawat
31. Unnao - Sakshi Maharaj
32. Mohanlalganj - Kaushal Kishore
33. Lucknow - Rajnath Singh
34. Amethi - Smriti Irani
35. Sultanpur - Maneka Gandhi
36. Pratapgarh - Sangam Lal Gupta
37. Farrukhabad - Mukesh Rajput
38. Etawah - Ram Shankar Katheria
39. Kannauj - Subrat Pathak
40. Kanpur - Ramesh Awasthi
41. Akbarpur - Devendra Singh
42. Jalaun - Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
43. Jhansi - Anurag Sharma
44. Hamirpur - Pushpendra Singh Chandel
45. Banda - R. K. Singh Patel
46. Fatehpur - Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
47. Kaushambi - Vinod Sonkar
48. Phulpur - Praveen Patel
49. Allahabad - Neeraj Tripathi
50. Faizabad - Lallu Singh
51. Ambedkar Nagar - Ritesh Pandey
52. Bahraich - Dr. Arvind Gaund
53. Shravasti - Saket Mishra
54. Gonda - Kirti Vardhan Singh
55. Domariyaganj - Jagdambika Pal
56. Basti - Harish Dwivedi
57. Sant Kabir Nagar - Praveen Kumar Nishad
58. Maharajganj - Pankaj Chaudhary
59. Gorakhpur - Ravi Kishan
60. Kushi Nagar - Vijay Kumar Dubey
61. Deoria - Shashank Mani Tripathi
62. Bansgaon - Kamlesh Paswan
63. Lalganj - Neelam Sonkar
64. Azamgarh - Dinesh Lal Yadav
65. Salempur - Ravindra Kushawaha
66. Ballia - Neeraj Shekhar
67. Jaunpur - Kripashankar Singh
68. Machhlishahr - B. P. Saroj
69. Ghazipur - Paras Nath Rai
70. Chandauli - Mahendra Nath Pandey
71. Varanasi - Narendra Modi
72. Bhadohi - Vinod Kumar Bind
Tripura (No of constituencies-2)
1. Tripura West - Biplab Kumar Deb
2. Tripura East (ST) - Kriti Singh Debbarma
Telangana (No.of constituencies-17)
1. Adilabad (ST) - G. Nagesh
2. Peddapalli (SC) - Gomasa Srinivas
3. Karimnagar - Bandi Sanjay Kumar
4. Nizamabad - Dharmapuri Arvind
5. Zahirabad - B. B. Patil
6. Medak - Raghunandan Rao
7. Malkajgiri - Etela Rajender
8. Secunderabad - G. Kishan Reddy
9. Hyderabad - Kompella Madhavi Latha
10. Chevella - Konda Vishweshwar Reddy
11. Mahabubnagar - D. K. Aruna
12. Nagarkurnool (SC) - Pothuganti Bharath Prasad
13. Nalgonda -Shanampudi Saidireddy
14. Bhuvanagiri - Boora Narsaiah Goud
15. Warangal (SC) - Aroori Ramesh
16. Mahabubabad (ST) - Azmeera Seetaram Naik
17. Khammam -Tandra Vinod Rao
Tamil Nadu (No.of constituencies-39)
1. Tiruvallur - Pon. V. Balaganapathy
2. Chennai North - R. C. Paul Kanagaraj
3. Chennai South - Tamilisai Soundararajan
4. Chennai Central - Vinoj P. Selvam
5. Vellore - A. C. Shanmugam
6. Krishnagiri - C. Narasimhan
7. Tiruvannamalai - A. Ashwathaman
8. Namakkal - K. P. Ramalingam
9. Tiruppur - A. P. Muruganandam
10. Nilgiris - L. Murugan
11. Coimbatore - K. Annamalai
12. Pollachi - K. Vasantharajan
13. Karur - V. V. Senthilnathan
14. Perambalur - T. R. Paarivendhar
15. Chidambaram - P. Karthiyayini
16. Nagapattinam - SGM Ramesh
17. Thanjavur - M. Muruganandam
18. Sivaganga - D. Devanathan Yadav
19. Madurai - Raama Sreenivasan
20. Virudhunagar -R. Radikaa
21. Tenkasi - B. John Pandian
22. Tirunelveli - Nainar Nagendran
23. Kanniyakumari - Pon. Radhakrishnan
Sikkim (No.of constituencies-1)
1. Sikkim -Dinesh Chandra Nepal
Rajasthan (No.of constituencies-25)
1. Ganganagar (SC) - Priyanka Balan
2. Bikaner (SC) - Arjun Ram Meghwal
3. Churu - Devendra Jhajharia
4. Jhunjhunu - Subhkaran Choudhary
5. Sikar - Sumedhanand Saraswati
6. Jaipur Rural - Rao Rajendra Singh
7. Jaipur - Manju Sharma
8. Alwar - Bhupender Yadav
9. Bharatpur (SC) - Ramswaroop Koli
10. Karauli–Dholpur (SC) - Indu Devi Jatav
11. Dausa (ST) - Kanhaiya Lal Meena
12. Tonk Sawai Madhopur - Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria
13. Ajmer - Bhagirath Chaudhary
14. Nagaur - Jyoti Mirdha
15. Pali - P. P. Chaudhary
16. Jodhpur - Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
17. Barmer - Kailash Choudhary
18. Jalore - Lumbaram Choudhary
19. Udaipur (ST) - Mannalal Rawat
20. Banswara (ST) - Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya
21. Chittorgarh - Chandra Prakash Joshi
22. Rajsamand - Mahima Vishweshwar Singh
23. Bhilwara - Damodar Agarwal
24. Kota - Om Birla
25. Jhalawar Baran - Dushyant Singh
Punjab (No.of constituencies-13)
1. Gurdaspur - Dinesh Singh
2. Amritsar - Taranjit Singh Sandhu
3. Khadoor Sahib - Manjeet Singh Manna Miawind
4. Jalandhar (SC) - Sushil Kumar Rinku
5. Hoshiarpur (SC) - Anita Som Prakash
6. Ludhiana - Ravneet Singh Bittu
7. Faridkot (SC) - Hans Raj Hans
8. Bathinda - Parampal Kaur Sindhu
9. Patiala - Preneet Kaur
Odisha (No.of constituencies-21 )
1. Bargarh - Pradip Purohit
2. Sundargarh (ST) - Jual Oram
3. Sambalpur - Dharmendra Pradhan
4. Keonjhar (ST) -Ananta Nayak
5. Mayurbhanj (ST)- Naba Charan Majhi
6. Balasore - Pratap Chandra Sarangi
7. Bhadrak (SC) - Avimanyu Sethi
8. Jajpur (SC) - Rabindra Narayan Behera
9. Dhenkanal - Rudra Narayan Pany
10. Bolangir - Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
11. Kalahandi - Malvika Keshari Deo
12. Nabarangpur (ST) - Balabhadra Majhi
13. Kandhamal - Sukanta Kumar Panigrahi
14. Cuttack - Bhartruhari Mahtab
15. Kendrapara - Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda
16. Jagatsinghpur (SC)-Bibhu Prasad Tarai
17. Puri - Sambit Patra
18. Bhubaneswar - Aparajita Sarangi
19. Aska - Anita Subhadarshini
20. Berhampur - Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi
21. Koraput (ST) - Kaleram Majhi
Mizoram (No.of constituencies-1)
1. Mizoram - Vanhlalmuaka
Manipur (No.of constituencies-2)
1. Inner Manipur - Thounaojam Basanta Kumar Singh
Maharashtra (No. of Constituencies-48)
1. Nandurbar (ST) -Heena Gavit
2. Dhule - Subhash Bhamre
3. Jalgaon - Smita Wagh
4. Raver - Raksha Khadse
5. Akola - Anup Dhotre
6. Amravati (SC) - Navneet Kaur Rana
7. Wardha - Ramdas Tadas
8. Nagpur - Nitin Gadkari
9. Bhandara Gondiya - Sunil Mendhe
10. Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST) - Ashok Nete
11. Chandrapur Sudhir Mungantiwar
12. Nanded - Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar
13. Jalna - Raosaheb Danve
14. Dindori (ST) - Bharati Pawar
15. Bhiwandi - Kapil Patil
16. Mumbai North - Piyush Goyal
17. Mumbai North East - Mihir Kotecha
18. Pune - Murlidhar Mohol
19. Ahmednagar - Sujay Vikhe Patil
20. Beed - Pankaja Munde
21. Latur (SC) - Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangare
22. Solapur (SC) - Ram Satpute
23. Madha - Ranjit Naik-Nimbalkar
24. Sangli - Sanjaykaka Patil
25. Satara - Udayanraje Bhosale
Madhya Pradesh (No.of constituencies-29)
1. Morena - Shivmangal Singh Tomar
2. Bhind (SC) - Sandhya Ray
3. Gwalior - Bharat Singh Kushwah
4. Guna - Jyotiraditya Scindia
5. Sagar - Lata Wankhede
6. Tikamgarh (SC) - Virendra Kumar Khatik
7. Damoh - Rahul Lodhi
8. Khajuraho - V. D. Sharma
9. Satna - Ganesh Singh
10. Rewa - Janardan Mishra
11. Sidhi - Rajesh Mishra
12. Shahdol (ST) - Himadri Singh
13. Jabalpur - Ashish Dubey
14. Mandla (ST)- Faggan Singh Kulaste
15. Balaghat - Bharti Pardhi
16. Chhindwara - Vivek Bunty Sahu
17. Narmadapuram - Darshan Singh Choudhary
18. Vidisha - Shivraj Singh Chouhan
19. Bhopal - Alok Sharma
20. Rajgarh - Rodmal Nagar
21. Dewas (SC) - Mahendra Solanki
22. Ujjain (SC) - Anil Firojiya
23. Mandsaur - Sudhir Gupta
24. Ratlam (ST) - Anita Nagar Singh Chouhan
25. Dhar (ST) - Savitri Thakur
26. Indore - Shankar Lalwani
27. Khargone -Gajendra Patel
28. Khandwa - Gyaneswar Patil
29. Betul (ST)- Durga Das Uikey
Kerala (No.of constituencies-20)
1. Kasaragod - ML Ashwini
2. Kannur - C Raghunath
3. Vatakara - Prafulla Krishna
4. Wayanad - K Surendran
5. Kozhikode - MT Ramesh
6. Malappuram - M Abdul Salam
7. Ponnani - Niveditha Subramanian
8. Palakkad - C KrishnaKumar
9. Alathur (SC) - TN Sarasu
10. Thrissur - Suresh Gopi
11. Ernakulam -KS Radhakrishnan
12. Alappuzha - Sobha Surendran
13. Pathanamthitta -Anil Antony
14. Kollam - G Krishnakumar
15. Attingal - V Muraleedharan
16. Thiruvananthapuram - Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Karnataka (No.of constituencies-28)
1. Chikkodi - Annasaheb Jolle
2. Belgaum -Jagadish Shettar
3. Bagalkot - P. C. Gaddigoudar
4. Bijapur - Ramesh Jigajinagi
5. Gulbarga - Umesh. G. Jadhav
6 Raichur- Raja Amareshwara Naik
7. Bidar- Bhagwanth Khuba
8. Koppal - Basavaraj Kyavator
9. Bellary - B. Sriramulu
10. Haveri - Basavaraj Bommai
11. Dharwad - Pralhad Joshi
12. Uttara Kannada - Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri
13. Davanagere - Gayathri Siddheshwara
14. Shimoga - B. Y. Raghavendra
15. Udupi Chikmagalur - Kota Srinivas Poojary
16. Dakshina Kannada - Brijesh Chowta
17. Chitradurga - Govind Karjol
18. Tumkur- V. Somanna
19. Mysore -Yaduveer Wadiyar
20. Chamarajanagar - S. Balaraj
21. Bangalore Rural - C. N. Manjunath
22. Bangalore North - Shobha Karandlaje
23. Bangalore Central - P. C. Mohan
24. Bangalore South - Tejasvi Surya
25. Chikballapur - K. Sudhakar
Jharkhand (No.of constituencies-14)
1. Rajmahal (ST) - Tala Marandi
2. Dumka (ST) - Sita Soren
3. Godda - Nishikant Dubey
4. Chatra - Kalicharan Singh
5. Kodarma - Annpurna Devi
6. Dhanbad - Dulu Mahato
7. Ranchi - Sanjay Seth
8. Jamshedpur - Bidyut Baran Mahato
9. Singhbhum (ST) - Geeta Koda
10. Khunti (ST) - Arjun Munda
11. Lohardaga (ST) - Sameer Oraon
12. Palamau (SC) - Vishnu Dayal Ram
13. Hazaribagh - Manish Jaiswal
Himachal Pradesh (No.of constituencies-4)
1. Kangra - Rajeev Bharadwaj
2. Mandi - Kangana Ranaut
3. Hamirpur - Anurag Thakur
4. Shimla (SC) - Suresh Kumar Kashyap
Haryana (No.of constituencies-10)
1. Ambala - Banto Kataria
2. Kurukshetra - Naveen Jindal
3. Sirsa - Ashok Tanwar
4. Hisar - Ranjit Singh Chautala
5. Karnal - Manohar Lal Khattar
6. Sonipat - Mohan Lal Badoli
7. Rohtak - Arvind Kumar Sharma
8. Bhiwani Mahendragarh - Dharambir Singh Chaudhary
9. Gurgaon - Rao Inderjit Singh
10. Faridabad - Krishan Pal Gurjar
Gujarat (No.of constituency-26)
1. Kachchh - Vinodbhai Chavda
2. Banaskantha - Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary
3. Patan - Bharatsinhji Dabhi
4. Mahesana - Haribhai Patel
5. Sabarkantha- Shobhnaben Mahendrasinh Baraiya
6. Gandhinagar - Amit Shah
7. Ahmedabad East - Hasmukh Patel
8. Ahmedabad West - Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana
9. Surendranagar - Chandubhai Chhaganbhai Shihora
10. Rajkot - Parshottam Rupala
11 Porbandar - Mansukh Mandaviya
12. Jamnagar - Poonamben Maadam
13. Junagadh - Rajesh Chudasama
14. Amreli - Bharatbhai Manubhai Sutariya
15. Bhavnagar - Nimu Bambhania
16. Anand - Mitesh Rameshbhai Patel
17. Kheda - Devusinh Jesingbhai Chauhan
18. Panchmahal - Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav
19. Dahod - Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor
20. Vadodara - Hemang Yogeshchandra Joshi
21. Chhota Udaipur - Jashubhai Rathwa
22. Bharuch - Mansukhbhai Vasava
23. Bardoli - Parbhubhai Vasava
24. Surat - Mukesh Dalal
25. Navsari - C. R. Patil
26. Valsad - Dhaval Patel
Goa (No.of constituencies-2)
1. North Goa - Shripad Naik
2. South Goa - Pallavi Shrinivas Dempo
Bihar (No.of constituency-40)
1. Paschim Champaran - Sanjay Jaiswal
2. Purvi Champaran - Radha Mohan Singh
3. Madhubani - Ashok Kumar Yadav
4. Araria - Pradeep Kumar Singh
5. Darbhanga - Gopal Jee Thakur
6. Muzaffarpur - Raj Bhushan Nishad
7. Maharajganj - Janardan Singh Sigriwal
8. Saran - Rajiv Pratap Rudy
9. Ujiarpur - Nityanand Rai
10. Begusarai - Giriraj Singh
11. Patna Sahib - Ravi Shankar Prasad
12. Pataliputra - Ram Kripal Yadav
13. Arrah - R. K. Singh
14. Buxar - Mithilesh Tiwari
15. Sasaram (SC) - Shivesh Ram
16. Aurangabad - Sushil Kumar Singh
17. Nawada - Vivek Thakur
Assam (No.of constituencies-14)
1. Darrang Udalguri - Dilip Saikia
2. Guwahati - Bijuli Kalita Medhi
3. Diphu (ST) - Amar Sing Tisso
4. Karimganj - Kripanath Mallah
5. Silchar (SC) - Parimal Suklabaidya
6. Nagaon - Suresh Bora
7. Kaziranga - Kamakhya Prasad Tasa
8. Sonitpur - Ranjit Dutta
9. Lakhimpur - Pradan Baruah
10. Dibrugarh - Sarbananda Sonowal
11. Jorhat -Topon Kumar Gogoi
Arunachal Pradesh (No.of constituencies-2)
1. Arunachal West - Kireb Rijiju
2. Arunachal East - Tapir Gao
3. Tezu(ST) - Mohesh Chai
Andhra Pradesh (No.of constituencies-25)
1. Araku (ST) - Kothapalli Geetha
2. Anakapalle - C. M. Ramesh
3. Rajahmundry - Daggubati Purandeswari
4. Narasapuram - Srinivas Verma
5. Tirupati (SC) - Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli
6. Rajampet - Kiran Kumar Reddy