Actors Kangana Ranaut, Arun Govil, Industrialist Naveen Jindal Get Tickets As BJP Names 111 More Candidates for LS Polls – News18

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Last Updated: March 24, 2024, 21:51 IST

BJP has fielded Naveen Jindal from Haryana’s Kurukshetra and actress Kangana Ranaut from Himachal’s Mandi. (File Image)

The Saffron party on Friday had released its fourth list of 15 candidates focusing on Puducherry and Tamil Nadu seats

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced its fifth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections featuring some big names including Naveen Jindal from Haryana’s Kurukshetra, actress Kangana Ranaut from Himachal’s Mandi and Arun Govil from Meerut.

This will be the electoral debut of Kangana Ranaut, who calls herself a “fan” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and and Arun Govil who played Ram in popular TV serial Ramayan.

While Varun Gandhi has been dropped from BJP’s candidate list in Uttar Pradesh, his mother Maneka Gandhi has retained Sultanpur.

K Surendran has been pitted from Wayanad against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

BJP releases 5th list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.Nityanand Rai to contest from Ujiarpur.Giriraj Singh from Begusarai.Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib.Kangana Ranaut from Mandi.Naveen Jindal from Kurukshetra.Sita Soren from Dumka.Jagadish… pic.twitter.com/xQOR2BDpA0

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The Saffron party on Friday had released its fourth list of 15 candidates focusing on Puducherry and Tamil Nadu seats. BJP fielded A Namassivayam from Puducherry, actor and politician Raadhika Sarathkumar from Virudhnagar, Pon V Balaganapathy from Tiruvallur (SC), RC Paul Kangaraj from Chennai North and P Karthiyayini from Chidambaram (SC). Former AIADMK leader, P Karthiyayini had jumped ship to BJP in 2017.

In its third list of 9 candidates from Tamil Nadu released on March 21, BJP pitted former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South. Soundararajan had resigned from the post of Telangana governor a few days ago.

Other big names on the list included L Murugan, who will contest from Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai from Coimbatore, and Pon Radhakrishnan from Kanyakumari.

BJP had released its first list of 195 candidates on March 2 announcing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi for a third time. The party had released a second list of 75 candidates which featured 11 Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Singh Thakur and Pralhad Joshi on March 13.

In the first list, candidates for 51 seats from Uttar Pradesh, 20 from West Bengal, 24 from Madhya Pradesh, 15 each from Gujarat and Rajasthan, 12 from Kerala, 9 seats from Telangana, 11 from Assam, 11 each from Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, five from Delhi, two from Jammu and Kashmir, three from Uttarakhand, two from Arunachal Pradesh and one each from Goa, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar, and Daman and Diu were announced.