In an apparent indication of the party's preparedness for the significant polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unveiled its initial list of candidates for the next general elections on Saturday.
Anticipatedly, the BJP released its first list of over 195 candidates for the Lok Sabha election of 2024. This list includes 34 Union Ministers and Ministers of States, along with notable individuals like Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Along with two former Chief Ministers, Om Birla, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, is also mentioned.
Union Minister Amit Shah will run from Gandhinagar, while Prime Minister Modi will campaign from his home state of Varanasi, according to party general secretary Vinod Tawde. Once more, from Gorakhpur and Amethi, respectively, came Ravi Kishan and Smriti Irani.
For the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has once more fielded Kiren Rijiju and Tapir Gao from two Arunachal Pradesh seats. The BJP General Secretary went on to say that Union Ministers V Muralidharan and Rajeev Chandrasekhar will run from Attingal and Thiruvananthapuram, respectively.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, J. P. Nadda, and other prominent people attended the first meeting of the BJP's central election committee on Thursday at the party headquarters, following several rounds of talks.
The list, which covers 16 states and Union Territories, also includes 47 candidates under 50 years old, 28 women, 27 SC, and 57 OBC candidates.
There are nine applicants from Kerala, nine from Telangana, and eleven from Assam, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh for the roughly fifteen seats that have been declared for Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Five candidates from Delhi and one from Goa have been announced in the interim.
Jayant Sinha and Gautam Gambhir, two BJP MPs, announced earlier today that they would not be running in the next Lok Sabha elections. The latter mentioned impending cricket commitments, while the former claimed the necessity to concentrate his efforts on fighting global climate change in Bharat and across the world.
Delhi :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Bansuri Swaraj | New Delhi |
| Kamaljit Sehrawat | West Delhi |
| Ramvir Singh Bidhuri | South Delhi |
| Manoj Tiwari | North East Delhi |
| Parveen Khandelwal | Chandni Chowk |
Telangana :
| Candidates | Seat |
| G Kishen Reddy | Secunderabad |
| Dr Madhavi Latha | Hyderabad |
| Bandi Sanjay | Karimnagar |
| Arvind Dharampuri | Nizamabad |
| B B Patil | Zaheerabad |
| B Narsaiah Goud | Bhongir |
| Etala Rajendra | Malkajgiri |
| Konda Vishweshwar Reddy | Chevella |
| P Bharat (SC) | Nagarkurnool |
Uttar Pradesh :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Pradeep Kumar | Kairana |
| Dr Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan | Muzaffarnagar |
| Om Kumar (SC) | Nagina |
| Ghanshyam Lodhi | Rampur |
| Parmeshwar Lal Saini | Sambhal |
| Kanwar Singh Tanwar | Amroha |
| Dr Mahesh Sharma | Gautam Budh Nagar |
| Dr Bhola Singh | Bulandshehar |
| Hema Malini | Mathura |
| Satyapal Singh Baghel (SC) | Agra |
| Rajkumar Chahar | Fatehpur Sikhri |
| Rajvir Singh (Raju Bhaiya) | Itah |
| Dharmendra Kashyap | Aonla |
| Arun Kumar Sagar (SC) | Shahjahanpur |
| Ajay Mishra 'Taini' | Kheri |
| Rekha Varma | Dhurahra |
| Rajesh Varma | Sitapur |
| Jaiprakash Rawat (SC) | Hardoi |
| Ashok Kumar Rawat (SC) | Misrikh |
| Sakshi Maharaj | Unnao |
| Kaushal Kishor | Mohanlal Gunj |
| Rajnath Singh | Lucknow |
| Smriti Irani | Amethi |
| Sangamlal Gupta | Pratapgarh |
| Mukesh Rajput | Farooqabad |
| Ramshankar Katheria | Itawah |
| Subrat Pathak | Kannauj |
| Devendra Singh Bhole | Akbarpur |
| Bhanu Pratap Singh Varma (SC) | Jalaun |
| Anurag Sharma | Jhansi |
| Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel | Amirpur |
| R.K. Singh Patel | Banda |
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | Fatehpur |
| Upendra Singh Rawat | Barabanki |
| Lallu Singh | Faizabad |
| Ritesh Pandey | Ambedkarnagar |
| Saket Mishra | Shrawasti |
| Keerti Vardhan Singh alias Raja Bhaiya | Gonda |
| Jagdambika Pal | Dmmariyaganj |
| Harish Dwivedi | Basti |
| Praveen Kumar Nishad | Sant Kabir Nagar |
| Pankaj Choudhary | Maharajguj |
| Ravi Kishan | Gorakhpur |
| Vijay Kumar Dubey | Kushinagar |
| Kamlesh Paswan (SC) | Bansgaon |
| Neelam Sonkar (SC) | Lalganj |
| Dinesh Lal Yadav | Azamgarh |
| Ravindra Kushwaha | Salempur |
| Kripashankar Singh | Jaunpur |
| Dr Mahendranath Pandey | Chandauli |
Gujarat :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Vinodbhai Lakhmashi Chavda | Kachchh |
| Dr Rekhaben Hitesh Bhai Chowdhary | Banaskantha |
| Bharat Singhji Dhabi | Pathan |
| Amit Shah | Gandhinagar |
| Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makhwana (SC) | Ahmedabad West |
| Parshottam Rupala | Rajkot |
| Mansukhbhai Mandaviya | Porbandar |
| Poonamben Maadam | Jamnagar |
| Niteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel | Anand |
| Devusinh Chouhan | Kheda |
| Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav | Panchmahal |
| Jaswant SIngh Babhor (ST) | Dahod |
| Mansukhbhai Vasava | Bharuch |
| Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava (ST) | Bardoli |
| CR Patil | Navsari |
Kerala :
| Candidates | Seat |
| M.L. Ashwini | Kasaragod |
| C. Raghunath | Kannur |
| Prafulla Krishna | Vadakara |
| M.T. 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 :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Shivmangal Singh Tomar | Morena |
| Sandhya Rai (SC) | Bhind |
| Bharat Singh Kushwaha | Gwalior |
| Jyotiraditya Scindia | Guna |
| Lata Wankhede | Sagar |
| Virendra Khatik (SC) | Tikamgarh |
| Rahul Lodhi | Damoh |
| V.D. Sharma | Khajuraho |
| Ganesh Singh | Satna |
| Janardan Mishra | Rewa |
| Dr. Rajesh Mishra | Sidhi |
| Jabalpur Shri Ashish Dubey (ST) | Shahdol |
| Faggan Singh Kulaste (ST) | Mandla |
| Darshan Singh Choudhary | Hoshangabad |
| Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Vidisha |
| Alok Sharma | Bhopal |
| Rodmal Nagar | Rajgarh |
| Mahendra Singh Solanki (SC) | Dewas |
| Sudhir Gupta | Mandsour |
| Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan (ST) | Ratlam |
| Gajendra Patel (ST) | Khargone |
| Gyaneshwar Patil | Khandwa |
| Durga Das Uikey (ST) | Betul |
Rajasthan :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal (SC) | Bikaner |
| Devendra Jhajharia | Churu |
| Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati | Sikar |
| Bhupender Yadav | Alwar |
| Ramswaroop Koli (SC) | Bharatpur |
| Jyoti Mirdha | Nagaur |
| P.P. Chaudhary | Pali |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Jodhpur |
| Kailash Choudhary | Barmer |
| Lumbaram Choudhary | Jalore |
| Mannalal Rawat (ST) | Udaipur |
| Mahendra Malviya (ST) | Banswara |
| C.P. Joshi | Chittorgarh |
| Om Birla | Kota |
| Dushyant Singh | Jhalawar-Baran |
Tripura :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Biplab Kumar Deb | Tripura West |
Uttarakhand :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah | Tehri Garhwal |
| Ajay Tamta | Almora |
| Ajay Bhatt | Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar |
West Bengal :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Nisith Pramanik (SC) | Cooch Behar |
| Shri Manoj Tigga (ST) | Alipurduars |
| Dr. Sukanta Majumdar | Balurghat |
| Khagen Murmu | Malda Uttar |
| Syeerupa Mitra Chowdhury | Malda Dakshin |
| Dr. Nirmal Kumar Saha | Baharampur |
| Gauri Shankar Ghosh | Murshidabad |
| Jagannath Sarkar (SC) | Ranaghat |
| Shantanu Thakur (SC) | Bangaon |
| Dr. Ashok Kandari (SC) | Joynagar |
| 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 (SC) | Bishnupur |
| Pawan Singh | Asansol |
| Priya Saha (SC) | Bolpur |
Jammu & Kashmir :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Dr. Jitendra Singh | Udhampur |
| Jugal Kishore Sharma | Jammu |
Jharkhand :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Tala Marandi (ST) | Rajmahal |
| Sunil Soren (ST) | Dumka |
| Nishikant Dubey | Godda |
| Annapurna Devi | Kodarma |
| Sanjay Seth | Ranchi |
| Vidhyut Baran Mahato | Jamshedpur |
| Geeta Koda (ST) | Singhbhum |
| Arjun Munda (ST) | Khunti |
| Samir Oraon (ST) | Lohardaga |
| Vishnu Dayal Ram (SC) | Palamau |
| Manish Jaiswal | Hazaribagh |
Andaman & Nicobar Islands :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Bishnu Pada Ray | Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
Arunachal Pradesh :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Arunachal West | Kiren Rijiju |
| Arunachal East | Tapir Gao |
Assam :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Kripanath Mallah (SC) | Karimganj |
| Parimal Suklabaidya | Silchar |
| Amar Sing Tisso (ST) | Autonomous District |
| Bijuli Kalita Medhi | Guwahati |
| Dilip Saikia | Mangaldoi |
| Ranjit Dutta | Tezpur |
| Suresh Bora | Nowgong |
| Kamakhaya Prasad Tasa | Kaliabor |
| Topon Kumar Gogai | Jorhat |
| Sarbananda Sonowal | Dibrugarh |
| Pradhan Baruah | Lakhimpur |
Chattisgarh :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Chintamani Maharaj (ST) | Sarguja |
| Radheshyam Rathia (ST) | Raigarh |
| Kamlesh Jangde (SC) | Janjgir-Champa |
| Sushri Saroj Pandey | Korba |
| Tokhan Sahu | Bilaspur |
| Santosh Pandey | Rajnandgaon |
| Vijay Baghel | Durg |
| Brijmohan Agarwal | Raipur |
| Roop Kumari Choudhary (ST) | Mahasamund |
| Mahesh Kashyap | Bastar |
| Bhojraj Nag | Kanker |
Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Lalubhai Patel | Daman & Diu |
Goa :
| Candidates | Seat |
| Shripad Yesso Naik | North Goa |
