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BJP Candidate Full List: Lok Sabha Elections 2024

On Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party unveiled its inaugural lineup of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi slated to run for the Varanasi seat. Included in this initial roster are 34 Union Ministers and two former Chief Ministers. BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawde, upon releasing the list, highlighted […]

BJP Candidate Full List: Lok Sabha Elections 2024

On Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party unveiled its inaugural lineup of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi slated to run for the Varanasi seat.

Included in this initial roster are 34 Union Ministers and two former Chief Ministers. BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawde, upon releasing the list, highlighted its diverse composition, comprising 28 women candidates, 47 youths, 27 from Scheduled Castes, 18 from Scheduled Tribes, and 57 from Other Backward Classes.

Among the notable contenders, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is set to contest from Dibrugarh, while Kiren Rijiju will vie for the Arunachal Pradesh seat. Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of the late former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, has been nominated to run in New Delhi.

Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajiv Chandrashekhar, and Jyotiraditya Scindia are also prominent figures in the list, with Shah contesting from Gandhinagar, Chandrashekhar from Thiruvananthapuram, and Scindia from Guna, Madhya Pradesh.

How Many Seats In Each State:

HOW MANY SEATS IN EACH STATE

  • Uttar Pradesh: 51 seats
  • West Bengal: 20
  • Madhya Pradesh: 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

 

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP Full List

Arunachal Pradesh: Kiren Rijiju

Silchar: Parimal Shukla Vaidya

Varanashi: PM Modi

Dibrugarh: Sarbananda Sonowal

New Delhi: Bansuri Swaraj

North Goa: Shripad Naik

North Delhi: Manoj Tiwari

Gandhinagar: Amit Shah

Porbandar: Mansukh Mandaviya

Udampur: Dr Jitendra Singh

Godda: Nishikant Dubey

Guna: Jyotiraditya Scindia

Vidisha: Shivraj Singh Chauhan

Bhopal: Sadhvi Pragya

Bikaner: Arjun Ram Meghwal

Jodhpur: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Chittorgarh: CP Joshi

Kota: Om Birla

Tripura West: Biplab Dev

Guatam Buddh Nagar: Mahesh Sharma

Mathura: Hema Malini

Lucknow: Rajnath Singh

Amethi: Smriti Irani

Faizabad: Lallu Singh

Gorakhpur: Ravi Kishan

Azamgarh: Dinesh Lal Sharma

Balurghat: Sukanto Majumdar

Hooghly: Locket Chatterjee

Asansol: Pawan Singh


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