BJP announces first list of 195 candidates for Lok Sabha elections 2024

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has today released the first list of its candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, which are scheduled to be held in April-May 2024. The list contains the names of 195 candidates, who will contest from 16 states and union territories. The list includes 34 Union and State ministers, two former ministers, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, 28 women, and 47 youth leaders.

Highlights of the list

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek re-election for the third time from his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. He won the seat in 2014 and 2019 with huge margins of over 3 lakh and 4.7 lakh votes respectively.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is also the former BJP president, will contest from Gandhinagar in Gujarat. He won the seat in 2019 by a margin of over 5.5 lakh votes, succeeding veteran leader LK Advani.
• Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the BJP in 2020 after quitting the Congress, will contest from Guna in Madhya Pradesh. He had represented the seat for four consecutive terms from 2002 to 2019, before losing to Congress’ KP Yadav by a margin of over 1.2 lakh votes.
• Union Minister Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from Amethi in 2019 by a margin of over 55,000 votes, will contest from the same seat again. Amethi is considered a bastion of the Gandhi family, as it has been represented by them for most of the time since 1980.
• BJP has fielded Bansuri Swaraj, the daughter of late External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, from the New Delhi seat. She will face Congress’ Ajay Maken, who won the seats in 2004 and 2009 but lost to BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi in 2014 and 2019.
• BJP has also given tickets to several other prominent leaders, such as Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, Dharmendra Pradhan from Sambalpur, Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal West, Sarbananda Sonowal from Dibrugarh, Arjun Meghwal from Bikaner, Mahendranath Pandey from Chandauli, and Bhupendra Yadav from Alwar.

List of prominent leaders

The following table shows the full list of prominent leaders announced by BJP for the Lok Sabha elections 2024:

BJP confident of forming Modi government again

National General Secretary of BJP Vinod Tawde said that the party has worked to expand the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the last few days, by bringing in new allies and retaining the old ones. He expressed confidence that the Modi government will be formed once again in the country, as the people have seen its performance and achievements in the last seven years. He said that the same voice is coming from everyone’s heart once again Modi government.

Tawde also said that after polling in some Lok Sabha constituencies and states, some names were sent to the party high command, which were discussed by the Central Election Committee (CEC). The CEC, which is the highest decision-making body of the party, comprises of Prime Minister Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Home Minister Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Organization General Secretary BL Santosh, Chief Ministers of various states, State Presidents, In-charge, Co-in-charge, and Election In-charge.

The BJP had held a meeting on February 29 given the elections, in which all the members of the CEC were present. The meeting lasted for over four hours, during which the candidates for the first list were finalized. The party is expected to announce the second list of candidates soon, as the nomination process for the first phase of polling will begin on March 4. The Lok Sabha elections 2024 will be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19, and the results will be declared on May 23.

Check the full list of candidates
Uttar Pradesh
Narendra Modi – Varanasi

Rajnath Singh – Lucknow

Smriti Irani – Amethi

Ritesh Pandey – Ambedkar Nagar

Hema Malini – Mathura

Ravi Kishan – Gorakhpur

Pradeep Kumar – Kairana

Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Muzaffarnagar

Om Kumar – Nagina (SC)

Ghanshyam Lodhi – Rampur

Parameshvar Lal Saini – Sambhal

Kanwar Singh Tanwar – Amroha

Mahesh Sharma – Gautam Budh Nagar

Bhola Singh – Bulandshahr (SC)

Satyapal Singh Baghel – Agra (SC)

Raj Kumar Chahar – Fatehpur Sikri

Rajveer Singh – Etah

Dharmendra Kashyap – Aonla

Arun Kumar Sagar – Shahjahanpur (SC)

Ajay Mishra Teni – Kheri

Rekha Verma – Dhaurahra

Rajesh Verma – Sitapur

Jal Prakash Rawat – Hardoi (SC)

Ashok Kumar Rawat – Misrikh (SC)

Sakshi Maharaj – Unnao

Kaushal Kishore – Mohanlalganj (SC)

Sangam Lal Gupta – Pratapgarh

Mukesh Rajput – Farrukhabad

Ram Shankar Katheria – Etawah (SC)

Subrat Pathak – Kannauj

Devendra Singh Bhole – Akbarpur

Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma – Jalaun (SC)

Anurag Sharma – Jhansi

Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel – Hamirpur

R K Singh Patel – Banda

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti – Fatehpur

Upendra Singh Rawat – Barabanki (SC)

Lallu Singh – Faizabad

Saket Mishra – Shrawasti

Kirti Vardhan Singh – Gonda

Jagdambika Pal – Domariyaganj

Harish Dwivedi – Basti

Praveen Kumar Nishad – Sant Kabir Nagar

Pankaj Choudhary – Maharajganj

Vijay Kumar Dubey – Kushi Nagar

Kamlesh Paswan – Bansgaon (SC)

Neelam Sonkar – Lalganj (SC)

Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ – Azamgarh

Ravindra Kushwaha – Salempur

Kripashankar Singh – Jaunpur

Mahendra Nath Pandey – Chandauli

West Bengal
Nisith Pramanik – Cooch Behar (SC)

Manoj Tigga – Alipurduars (ST)

Dr. Sukanta Majumdar – Balurghat

Khagen Murmu – Maldaha Uttar

Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury – Maldaha Dakshin

Dr. Nirmal Kumar Saha – Baharampur

Shri Gauri Shankar Ghosh – Murshidabad

Jagannath Sarkar – Ranaghat (SC)

Shantanu Thakur – Bangaon (SC)

Dr. Ashok Kandari – Joynagar (SC)

Dr. Anirban Ganguly – Jadavpur

Dr. Rathin Chakraborty – Howrah

Locket Chatterjee – Hooghly

Soumendu Adhikari – Kanthi

Hiranmay Chattopadhyay – Ghatal

Jyotirmay Singh Mahato – Purulia

Dr. Shubash Sarkar – Bankura

Soumitra Khan – Bishnupur

Pawan Singh – Asansol

Priya Saha – Bolpur (SC)

Madhya Pradesh
Jyotiraditya Scindia – Guna

Shivraj Singh Chouhan – Vidisha

Shivmangal Singh Tomar – Morena

Sandhya Rai – Bhind (SC)

Bharat Singh Kushwaha – Gwalior

Lata Wankhede – Sagar

Virendra Khatik – Tikamgarh (SC)

Rahul Lodhi – Damoh

V D Sharma – Khajuraho

Ganesh Singh – Satna

Janardan Mishra – Rewa

Rajesh Mishra – Sidhi

Shahdol (ST) – Himadri Singh

Ashish Dubey – Jabalpur

Faggan Singh Kulaste – Mandla (ST)

Darshan Singh Choudhary – Hoshangabad

Alok Sharma – Bhopal

Rodmal Nagar – Rajgarh

Mahendra Singh Solanki – Dewas (SC)

Sudhir Gupta – Mandsour

Anita Nagar Singh Chaudhan – Ratlam (ST)

Gajendra Patel – Khargone (ST)

Gyaneshwar Patil – Khandwa

Durga Das Uikey – Betul (ST)

Gujarat
Amit Shah – Gandhinagar

Vinodbhai Lakhmashi Chavda – Kachchh (SC)

Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary – Banaskantha

Bharatsinhji Dabhi – Patan

Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana – Ahmedabad West (SC)

Parshottam Rupala – Rajkot

Mansukhbhai Mandaviya – Porbandar

Poonamben Maadam – Jamnagar

Miteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel – Anand

Devusinh Chauhan – Kheda

Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav – Panchmahal

Jasvantsinh Bhabhor – Dahod (ST)

Mansukhbhai Vasava – Bharuch

Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava – Bardoli (ST)

C R Patil – Navsari

Rajasthan
Om Birla – Kota

Arjun Ram Meghwal – Bikaner (SC)

Devendra Jhajharia – Churu

Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati – Sikar

Bhupendra Yadav – Alwar

Ramswaroop Koli – Bharatpur (SC)

Jyoti Mirdha – Nagaur

P P Chaudhary – Pali

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – Jodhpur

Kailash Choudhary – Barmer

Lumbaram Choudhary – Jalore

Mannalal Rawat – Udaipur (ST)

Mahendra Malviya – Banswara (ST)

C P Joshi – Chittorgarh

Dushyant Singh – Jhalawar-Baran

Kerala
Rajeev Chandrashekhar – Thiruvananthapuram

M L Ashwini – Kasaragod

C Raghunath – Kannur

Prafulla Krishna – Vadakara

M T Ramesh – Kozhikode

Abdul Salam – Malappuram

Niveditha Subramanian – Ponnani

C Krishnakumar – Palakkad

Suresh Gopi – Thrissur

Shobha Surendran – Alappuzha

Anil K Antony – Pathanamthitta

V Muraleedharan – Attingal

Telangana
Bandi Sanjay kumar – Karimnagar

Arvind Dharmapuri – Nizambad

B. B. Patil – Zahirabad

Etela Rajender – Malkajgiri

G. Kishan Reddy – Secundrabad

Dr. Madhavi Latha – Hyderabad

Konda Vishweshwar Reddy – Chelvella

P. Bharat – Nagarkurnool (SC)

Boora Narsaiah Goud – Bhongir

Assam
Sarbananda Sonowal – Dibrugarh

Kripanath Mallah – Karimganj (SC)

Parimal Suklabaidya – Silchar

Amar Singh Tisso – Autonomous District (ST)

Bijuli Kalita Medhi – Gauhati

Dilip Saikia – Mangaldoi

Ranjit Dutta – Tezpur

Suresh Bora – Nowgong

Kamakhya Prasad Tasa – Kaliabor

Topon Kumar Gogai – Jorhat

Pradhan Baruah – Lakhimpur

Jharkhand
Tala Marandi – Rajmahal (ST)

Sunil Soren – Dumka (ST)

Nishikant Dubey – Godda

Annapurna Devi – Kodarma

Sanjay Seth – Ranchi

Vidhyut Baran Mahato – Jamshedpur

Geeta Koda – Singhbhum (ST)

Arjun Munda – Khunti (ST)

Samir Oraon – Lohardaga (ST)

Vishnu Dayal Ram – Palamau (SC)

Manish Jaiswal – Hazaribagh

Chhattisgarh
Chintamani Maharaj – Sarguja (ST)

Radheshyam Rathia – Raigarh (ST)

Kamlesh Jangde – Janjgir-Champa (SC)

Sushri Saroj Pandey – Korba

Tokhan Sahu – Bilaspur

Santosh Pandey – Rajnandgaon

Vijay Baghel – Durg

Brijmohan Agarwal – Raipur

Roop Kumari Choudhary – Mahasamund

Mahesh Kashyap – Bastar (ST)

Bhojraj Nag – Kanker (ST)

Delhi
Praveen Khandelwal – Chandni Chowk

Manoj Tiwari – North East Delhi

Sushri Bansuri Swaraj – New Delhi

Kamaljeet Sehrawat – West Delhi

Ramvir Singh Bidhuri – South Delhi

Jammu and Kashmir
Jitendra Singh – Udhampur

Jugal Kishore Sharma – Jammu

Uttarakhand
Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah – Tehri Garhwal

Ajay Tamta – Almora (SC)

Ajay Bhatt – Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar

Arunachal Pradesh
Kiren Rijiju – Arunachal West

Tapir Gao – Arunachal East

Goa
Shripad Yesso Naik – North Goa

Tripura
Biplab Deb – Tripura

Andaman and Nicobar
Bishnu Pada Ray – Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Daman and Diu
Lalubhai Patel – Daman and Diu