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BJP releases 2nd list of 72 candidates

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Shailesh Khanduri
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BJP Central Election Committee Meeting being held at party headquarters in New Delhi

BJP Central Election Committee Meeting being held at party headquarters in New Delhi

New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai.

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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 B S Yediyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra will contest from Shimoga.

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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.

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1 Kalaben Delkar Dadra & Nagar Haveli
2 Harsh Malhotra East Delhi
3 Yogendra Chandolia North West Delhi (SC)
4 Bhikhaji Dudhaji Thakor Sabarkantha, Gujarat
5 Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel Ahmedabad East
6 Nimuben Bambhania Bhavnagar
7 Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt Vadodara
8 Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa Chhota Udaipur (ST)
9 Mukeshbhai Chandrakant Dalal Surat
10 Dhawan Patel Valsad (ST)
11 Banto Kataria Ambala (SC), Haryana
12 Ashok Tanwar Sirsa (SC), Haryana
13 Manohar Lal Khattar Karnal
14 Chaudhary Dharambir Singh Bhiwani-Mahendragarh
15 Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav Gurgaon
16 Krishan Pal Gurjar Faridabad
17 Anurag Thakur Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
18 Suresh Kumar Kashyap Shimla
19 Annasaheb Shankar Jolle Chikkodi, Karnataka
20 P C gaddigoudar Bagalkot
21 Ramesh Jigajinagi Bijapur (SC)
22 Umesh G Jadhav Gulbarga (SC)
23 Bhagwanth Khuba Bidar
24 Basavaraj Kyavator Koppal
25 B Sriramulu Bellary (ST)
26 Basavaraj Bommai Haveri
27 Pralhad Joshi Dharwad
28 Gayathri Siddeshwara Davanagere
29 B Y Raghavendra Shimoga
30 Kota Srinivas Pojary Udupi Chikmangalur
31 Capt Brijesh Chowta Dakshina Kannada
32 V Somanna Tumkur
33 Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar Mysore
34 S Balaraj Chamarajanagar (SC)
35 C N Manjunath Bangalore Rural
36 Kumari Shobha Karandlaje Bangalore North
37 P C Mohan Bangalore Central
38 Tejasvi Surya Bangalore South
39 Dr Bharti Pardhi Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
40 Vivek 'Bunty' Sahu Chhindwara
41 Anil Firoziya Ujjain (SC)
42 Savitri Thakur Dhar (ST)
43 Shankar Lalwani Indore
44 Heena Vijaykumar Gavit Nandurbar (ST), Maharashtra
45 Subhash Ramrao Bhamre Dhule
46 Smita Wagh Jalgaon
47 Raksha Nikhil Khadase Raver
48 Anup Dhotre Akola
49 Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas Wardha
50 Nitin Gadkari Nagpur
51 Sudhir Mungantiwar Chandrapur
52 Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar Nanded
53 Raosaheb Dadarao Danve Jalna
54 Bharati Pravin Pawar Dindori (ST)
55 Kapil Moreshwar Patil Bhiwandi
56 Piyush Goyal Mumbai North
57 Mihir Kotecha Mumbai North East
58 Murlidhar Kisan Mohol Pune
59 Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil Ahmadnagar
60 Pankaja Munde Beed
61 Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangare Latur (SC)
62 Ranjeetsinha Hindurao Naik-Nimbalkar Madha
63 Sanjaykaka Patil Sangli
64 Godam Nagesh Adilabad (ST), Telangana
65 Gomasa Srinivas Peddapalle (SC)
66 Madavaneni Raghunandan Rao Medak
67 D K Aruna Mahbubnagar
68 Saida Reddy Nalgonda
69 Azmeera Seetaram Naik Mahabubabad (ST)
70 Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma Tripura East (ST)
71 Anil Baluni Garhwal, Uttarakhand
72 Trivendra Singh Rawat Hardwar

 

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