The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (March 2) introduced the first list of candidates within the 195 Lok Sabha seats for the upcoming basic elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi contesting from Varanasi once more being the spotlight of the list. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been fielded in Gandhinagar as soon as once more and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will combat from Lucknow. The list additionally consists of 34 central ministers and MoS and sitting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
The list incorporates 195 candidates, two former chief ministers, 28 girls, 47 younger candidates lower than 50 years of age, SC 27, ST 18, and OBC 57.
There are a number of sitting MPs who haven’t been trusted by the occasion to drive them house in serving to it contact the 370 seats mark.
Leaders who didn’t make it to the first list of the BJP are:
- Pragya Singh Thakur changed by Alok Sharma from Bhopal
- Meenakashi Lekhi changed by Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi
- Ramesh Bidhuri changed by Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from South Delhi
- Dr Harsh Vardhan changed by Praveen Khandelwal from Delhi Chandni Chowk
- Parvesh Verma changed by Kamaljeet Sehrawat from West Delhi
- Ramakant Bhargava changed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha
- Krishna Pal Singh Yadav changed by Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna
- Kummanam Rajasekharan changed by Rajeev Chandrasekhar from Thiruvananthapuram
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