BJP candidate list 2024: With just months away from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced its first list of 195 candidates. Amid this, the BJP replaced over 33 sitting MPs with new faces for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
In the list, the BJP announced its candidates for 11 Lok Sabha seats in Assam. Of them, six candidates are MPs, while the remaining five are new faces. In Chhattisgarh, the list has four new faces.
From Delhi, the BJP nominated five candidates for Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, four of them to replace sitting MPs. In Gujarat and Rajasthan too, the party has named its candidates for 15 Lok Sabha and dropped five sitting MPs. Besides, some controversial candidates including Pragya Thakur, Ramesh Bidhuri, Parvesh Verma and Jayant Sinha have also been replaced in this year's polls.
Here is a list of candidates who have been replaced in the first list of BJP
No. | Stands | Lok Sabha seat | Current BJP candidate | Name of new candidate |
1 | Assam | Silchar Lok Sabha seat | Rajdeep Roy | Parimal Suklabaidhya |
2. | Assam | Seat of the Autonomous District (ST). | BBJP MP Horen Singh Bey | Amar Singh Tisso |
3 | Assam | Gauhati Lok Sabha seat | Queen Oh yes | Bijuli Kalita Medh |
4 | Assam | Tezpur Lok Sabh Chair | Pallab Lochan Das | Ranjit Dutta |
5 | Assam | Dibrugarh Chair | MP Rameswar Teli | Sarbanand Sonowal |
6 | Chhattisgarh | Janjgir Champa (SC) constituency. | Guharam Ajgalley | Kamlesh Jangde |
7 | Chhattisgarh | Raipur | Sunil Kumar Soni | BJP leader Brijmohan Agrawal |
8 | Chhattisgarh | Mahasamund chair | Chunni Lal Sahu | Roop Kumari Choudhary |
9 | Chhattisgarh | Cancer (ST) chair | Mohan Mandavi | Bhojraj Nag |
10 | Delhi | Chandani Chowk | Hard Vardhan | Praveen Khandelwal |
11 | Delhi | Headquartered in West Delhi | Sahib Singh Verma | Kamaljeet Sehrawat |
12 | Delhi | New Delhi | Meenakshi Lekhi | Bansuri Swaraj (daughter of late BJP leader Sushma Swaraj) |
13 | Delhi | South Delhi | Ramesh Bidhuri | Ramvir Singh Bidhuri |
14 | Gujarat | Banaskantha | Prabhatbhai Savabhai Patel | Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Choudhary |
15 | Gujarat | Ahmedabad West (SC) seat | Kirit Solanki | Dineshbhai Kidarbhai Makwana |
16 | Gujarat | Rajkot Lok Sabha seat | Mohanbhai Kalyanji Kundariya | Parshottam Rupala |
17 | Gujarat | Porbandar chair | Rameshbhai Lavjibhai Dhaduk | Mansukh Mandaviya |
18 | Gujarat | Panchmahal | Ratansinh Magansinh Rathod | Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav |
19 | Jharkhand | Hazaribagh seat | Jayant Sinha (son of former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha) | Manish Jaiswal |
20 | Jharkhand | Lohardaga (ST) seat | Sudarshan Bhagat | Samir Oraon |
21 | Madhya Pradesh | Gwalior Lok Sabha seat | Vivek Narayan Shejwalker | Bharat Singh Kushwaha |
22 | Madhya Pradesh | Guna | Krishnapal Singh Yadav | Jyotiraditya Scindia |
23 | Madhya Pradesh | Sagar Lok Sabha seat | Rajbahadur Singh | Lata Wankhede |
24 | Madhya Pradesh | Tikamgarh (SC) seat | Virendra Kumar | Virendra Khatik |
25 | Madhya Pradesh | Vidisha | Ramakant Bhargava | Shivraj Singh Chouhan |
26 | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal chair | Sadvi Pragya Singh | Alok Sharma |
27 | Madhya Pradesh | Ratlam (ST) seat | Guman Singh Damor | Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan |
28 | Tripura | Tripura West | Pratima Bhoumik | Biplab Kumar Deb |
29 | Tripura | Alipurduar | Johannes Barla | Manoj Tigga |
30 | Rajasthan | Churu | Rahul Kaswan | Devendra Jhajharia |
31 | Rajasthan | Bharatpur | Ranjita Kol | Ramswaroop Koli |
32 | Rajasthan | Jalore | Jogeshwar Garg | Lumbaran Choudhary |
33 | Rajasthan | Udaipur | Arjunlal Meena | Mannalal Rawat |
34 | Rajasthan | Banswara | Kanakmal Katara | Mahendra Malviya |
Candidates with a high profile
The first list will see high-profile names like Prime Minister Narendra Modi contesting from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah from Gandhinagar in Gujarat. The list, which includes the names of 34 Union ministers and foreign ministers, comes days before the dates of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls – to be held in April-May – are announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI ). Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will participate from Lucknow while Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani will participate from Amethi.
Meanwhile, of the 195 constituencies, 51 are from Uttar Pradesh, 20 from West Bengal and five from Delhi. The list includes names of 28 women, 47 leaders below the age of 50 and 57 members from the OBC community.
(With inputs from PTI)
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Published: Mar 3, 2024 12:03 IST