BJP’s 5th List of LS Candidates Out, Kangana Ranaut, Arun Govil, Among Nominees | Check List – News18

The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Sunday released its fifth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha Election 2024. The list included the names of 111 candidates including Dharmendra Pradhan, Arun Govil, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Maneka Gandhi and others.

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This time the saffron party has given ticket to Kangana Ranaut from Mandi. Other candidates like Arun Govil will contest from Meerut, K Surendran from Wayanad, Arjun Singh from Barrackpur, and newly joined Naveen Jindal from Kurukshetra. The party has dropped Union Minister Ashwini Choubey from Buxar.

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As a part of its third list, BJP nominated Union Minister L Murugan from Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai from Coimbatore, and former union minister Pon Radhakrishnan from Kanyakumari.

Vinoj P Selvam will contest from Chennai Central, A C Shanmugam from Vellore, C Narasimhan from Krishnagiri, and Nainar Nagendran from Tirunelveli, the party said.

Polling in the state’s 39 Lok Sabha seats will be held in the first phase on April 19. The BJP did not win a single seat from Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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The BJP named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai. BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand.

Tejasvi Surya, who serves as the chief of BJP’s youth wing, has announced to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Bengaluru South.