Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Here's BJP First List Of 195 Candidates

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from Varanasi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as it named 34 Union ministers in the first list of 195 candidates.

The list also included two former ministers as well as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla from Kota in Rajasthan.

Union ministers whose names have been announced by the BJP in the first list of candidates include Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Bhupender Yadav, Mansukh Mandaviya, Sarbananda Sonowal, Kiren Rijiju, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Arjun Ram Meghwal, G Kishan Reddy, Arjun Munda and Smriti Irani.

The list includes 28 women and 47 candidates below 50 years of age. It also consists 27 SC , 18 ST and 57 OBC candidates.

The number of candidates from each state listed below:

UP 51, West Bengal 20, MP 24, Gujarat 15, Rajasthan 15, Kerala 12, Telangana 9, Assam 11, Jharkhand 11, Chhattisgarh 11, Delhi 5, Jammu and Kashmir 2, Uttarakhand 3, Arunachal Pradesh 2, Goa 1. , Tripura 1, Andaman Nicobar 1, Daman Diu 1.

Andaman & Nicobar

Bishnu Pada Ray (Andaman and Nicobar Island)

Arunachal Pradesh

• Kiren Rijiju: Arunachal West

• Tapir Gao: Arunachal East

Assam

• Kripanath Mallah: Karmganj (SC)

• Parimal Suklabaidya: Silchar

• Amar Singh Tisso: Autonomous District (ST)

• Bijuli Kalita Medhi: Gauhati

• Dilip Saikia: Mangaldoi

• Ranjit Dutta: Tezpur

• Suresh Bora: Nowgong

• Kamakhaya Prasad Tasa: Kaliabor

• Topon Kumar Gogai: Jorhat

• Sarbananda Sonowal: Dibrugarh

• Pradhan Baruah : Lakhimpur

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)

Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman & Diu

Lalubhai Patel: Daman & Diu

Delhi

• Praveen Khandelwal: Chandni Chowk

• Manoj Tiwari: North East Delhi

• Bansuri Swaraj: New Delhi

• Kamaljeet Sehrawat: West Delhi

• Ramvir Singh Bidhuri: South Delhi

Goa

Shripad Yesso Naik: North Goa

Gujarat

• Vinodbhai Lakhmashi Chavda: Kachchh (SC)

• Dr Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary: Banaskantha

• Bharatsinhji Dabhi: Patan

• Amit Shah: Gandhinagar

• 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)

• CR Patil: Navsari

Jammu & Kashmir

• Dr Jitendra Singh: Udhampur

• Jugal Kishore Sharma: Jammu

Jharkhand

• Tala Marandi: Rajmahal (ST)

• Sunil Soren: Dumka (ST)

• Nishikant Dubey: Godda

• Annapurna Devi: Kodarma

• Sanjay Seth: Ranchi

• Vidyut Baran Mahato: Jamshedpur

• Geeta Koda: Singhbhum (ST)

• Arjun Munda: Khunti (ST)

• Samir Oraon: Lohardaga (ST)

• Vishnu Dayal Ram: Palamau (SC)

• Manish Jaishwal: Hazaribagh

Kerala

• ML Ashwini: Kasaragod

• C Raghunath: Kannur

• Prafulla Krishna: Vadakara

• MT Ramesh: Kozhikode

• Dr Abdul Salam: Malappuram

• Niveditha Subramanian: Ponnani

• C Krishnakumar: Palakkad

• Suresh Gopi: Thrissur

• Shobha Surendran: Alappuzha

• Anil K Antony: Pathanamthitta

• V Muraleedharan: Attingal

• Rajiv Chandrasekhar: Thiruvananthapuram

Madhya Pradesh

• Shivmangal Singh Tomar: Morena

• Sandhya Rai: Bhind (SC)

• Bharat Singh Kushwala: Gwalior

• Jyotiraditya Scindia: Guna

• Lata Wankhede: Sagar

• Virendra Khatik: Tikamgarh (SC)

• Rahul Lodhi: Damoh

• VD Sharma: Khajuraho

• Ganesh Singh: Satna

• Janardhan Mishra: Rewa

• Dr Rajesh Mishra: Sidhi

• Himadri Singh: Shahdol (ST)

• Ashish Dubey: Jabalpur

• Faggan Singh Kulaste: Mandla (ST)

• Darshan Singh Choudhary: Hoshangabad

• Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Vidisha

• Alok Sharma: Bhopal

• Rodmal Nagar: Rajgarh

• Mahendra Singh Solanki: Dewas (SC)

• Sudhir Gupta: Mandsour

• Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan: Ratlam (ST)

• Gajendra Patel: Khargone (ST)

• Gyaneshwar Patil: Khandwa

• Durga Das Uikey: Betul (ST)

Rajasthan

• Arjun Ram Meghwal: Bikaner (SC)

• Devendra Jhajharia: Churu

• Swami Suumedhanand Saraswati: Sikar

• Bhupendra Yadav: Alwar

• Ramswaroop Koli: Bharatpur (SC)

• Jyoti Mirdha: Nagaur

• PP Chaudhary: Pali

• Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Jodhpur

• Kailash Choudhary: Barmer

• Lumbharan Choudhary: Jalore

• Mannalal Rawat: Udaipur

• Mahendra Malviya: Banswara (ST)

• CP Joshi: Chittorgarh

• Om Birla: Kota

• Dushyant Singh: Jhalawar-Baran

Telangana

• Bandi Sanjay Kumar: Karimnagar

• Arvind Dharmapuri: Nizamabad

• BB Patil: Zahirabad

• Etela Rajendra: Malkajgiri

• G Kishan Reddy: Secundrabad

• Dr Madhavi Latha: Hyderabad

• Konda Vishweshwar Reddy: Chelvella

• P Bharat: Nagarkurnool (SC)

• Boora Narsaiah Goud: Bhongir

Tripura

Biplab Kumar Deb: Tripura West

Uttarakhand

• Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah: Tehri Garhwal

• Ajay Tamta: Almora (SC)

• Ajay Bhatt: Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar

Uttar Pradesh

• Pradeep Kumar: Kairana

• Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Muzzaffarnagar

• Om Kumar: Nagina (SC)

• Ghanshyam Lodhi: Rampur

• Parameshvar Lal Saini: Sambhal

• Kanwar Singh Tanwar: Amroha

• Dr Mahesh Sharma: Gautam Buddh Nagar

• Dr Bhola Singh: Bulandshahr (SC)

• Hema Malini: Mathura

• Satyapal Singh Baghel: Agra (SC)

• Raj Kumar Chahar: Fatehpur Sikri

• Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya): Etah

• Dharmendra Kashyap: Aonla

• Arun Kumar Sagar: Shahjahanpur (SC)

• Ajay Mishra "Teni": Kheri

• Rekha Verma: Dhaurahra

• Rajesh Sharma: Sitapur

• Jai Prakash Rawat: Hardoi (SC)

• Ashok Kumar Rawat: Misrikh (SC)

• Sakshi Maharaj: Unnao

• Kaushal Kishore: Mohanlalganj (SC)

• Rajnath Singh: Lucknow

• Smriti Irani: Amethi

• Sangam Lal Gupta: Pratapgarh

• Mukesh Rajput: Farrukhabad

• Dr Ram Shankar Katheria: Etawah (SC)

• Subrat Pathak: Kannauj

• Devendra Singh "Bhole": Akarpur

• Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma: Jalaun (SC)

• Anurag Sharma: Jhansi

• Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel: Hamirpur

• RK Singh: Banda

• Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Fatehpur

• Upendra Singh Rawat: Barabanki (SC)

• Lallu Singh: Faizabad

• Ritesh Pandey: Ambedkar Nagar

• Saket Mishra: Shrawasti

• Kirti Vardhan Singh Alias Raja Bhaiya: Gonda

• Jagdambika Pal: Domariyaganj

• Harish Dwivedi: Basti

• Praveen Kumar Nishad: Sant Kabir Nagar

• Pankaj Choudhary: Maharajganj

• Ravi Kishan: Gorakhpur

• Vijay Kumar Dubey: Kushinagar

• Kamlesh Paswan: Bansgaon (SC)

• Neelam Sonkar: Lalganj (SC)

• Dinesh Lal Yadav: Azamgarh

• Ravindra Kushwaha: Salempur

• Kripashankar Singh: Jaunpur

• Dr Mahendranath Pandey: Chandauli

West Bengal

• Nisith Pramanik: Cooch Behar (SC)

• Manoj Tigga: Alipurduars (ST)

• Dr. Sukanta Majumdar: Balurghat

• Khagen Murmu: Malda Uttar

• Syeerupa Mitra Chowdhury: Malda Dakshin

• Dr. Nirmal Kumar Saha: Baharampur

• 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. Subhash Sarkar: Bankura

• Soumitra Khan: Bishnupur (SC)

• Pawan Singh: Asansol

• Priya Saha: Bolpur (SC)