Lok Sabha Elections 2019: The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its list of candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will again contest elections from Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi Lok Sabha seat whereas BJP president Amit Shah will fight from Gujarat's Gandhinagar. Shah will replace BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani from the seat. Other prominent names in the lists are Home Minister Rajnath Singh (Lucknow), Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Patna Sahib), Smriti Irani (Amethi), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Jaipur Rural), Kiren Rijiju (Arunachal West), DV Sadananda Gowda (Bangalore North), Mahesh Sharma (Gautam Buddha Nagar), Narendra Singh Tomar (Morena), Hema Malini (Mathura), Ram Kripal Yadav (Pataliputra), Radha Mohan Singh (Purvi Champaran), Giriraj Singh (Begusarai), and General Vijay Kumar Singh (Ghaziabad). Some of the sitting MPs were also denied tickets by the BJP. Shatrughan Sinha (Patna Sahib), Bandaru Dattatreya (Secunderabad), Shanta Kumar (Kangra), Vijay Sampla (Hoshiarpur), Udit Raj (North West Delhi) and Bijoya Chakravarty (Gauhati) were some of them. The Lok Sabha Elections 2019 will be held in seven phases, starting from April 11. The results will be declared on May 23. 91 constituencies will go for polls in the first phase on April 11, followed by 97 constituencies in the second phase on April 18. The second phase will be held on April 18, third on April 23 and fourth on April 29, fifth on May 6, sixth on May 12 and seventh phase on May 19.
Here is the complete list of BJP candidates for Lok Sabha polls 2019
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates:
Bihar:
1. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Patna Sahib
2. Sanjay Jaiswal: Paschim Champaran
3. Radha Mohan Singh: Purvi Champaran
4. Rama Devi: Sheohar
5. Pradeep Singh: Araria
6. Ashok Kumar Yadav: Madhubani
7. Ashwini Kumar Choubey: Buxar
8. Gopal Jee Thakur: Darbhanga
9. Ajay Nishad: Muzaffarpur
10. Janardan Singh Sigriwal: Maharajganj
11. Sushil Kumar Singh: Aurangabad
12. Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Saran
13. Nityanand Rai: Ujiarpur
14. Chhedi Paswan: Sasaram
15. Giriraj Singh: Begusarai
16. Ram Kripal Yadav: Pataliputra
17. RK Singh: Arrah
Punjab:
1. Hardeep Singh Puri: Amritsar
2. Som Prakash: Hoshiarpur
3. Sunny Deol: Gurdaspur
Delhi:
1. Harsh Vardhan: Chandni Chowk
2. Manoj Tiwari: North East Delhi
3. Parvesh Verma: West Delhi
4. Ramesh Bidhuri: South Delhi
5. Gautam Gambhir: East Delhi
6. Hans Raj Hans: North West Delhi
7. Meenakshi Lekhi: New Delhi
Madhya Pradesh:
1. Narendra Singh Tomar: Morena
2. Sandhya Rai: Bhind
3. Virendra Kumar Khateek: Tikamgarh
4. Prahlad Patel: Damoh
5. Ganesh Singh: Satna
6. Janardan Mishra: Rewa
7. Riti Pathak: Sidhi
8. Himadri Singh: Shahdol
9. Rakesh Singh: Jabalpur
10. Faggan Singh Kulaste: Mandla
11. Rao Udai Pratap Singh: Hoshangabad
12. Anil Firojiya: Ujjain
13. Sudhir Gupta: Mandsour
14. Nand Kumar Singh Chouhan: Khandwa
15. Durgadas Uike: Betul
16. Dhal Singh Bisen: Balaghat
17. Rodmal Nagar: Rajgarh
18. Gajendra Patel: Khargone
19. Vivek Sejwalkar: Gwalior
20. Natthan Shah: Chhindwara
21. Mahendra Solanki: Dewas
22. Bishnu Datt Sharma: Khajuraho
23. Chhatar Singh Darbar: Dhar
24. GS Damor: Ratlam
25. Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur: Bhopal
26. KP Yadav: Guna
27. Ramakant Bhargava: Vidisha
28. Raj Bahadur Singh: Sagar
29. Shankar Lalwani: Indore
Himachal Pradesh
1. Kishan Kapoor: Kangra
2. Ramswroop Sharma: Mandi
3. Anurag Thakur: Hamirpur
4. Suresh Kashyap: Shimla
Haryana:
1. Rattan Lal Kataria: Ambala
2. Nayab Singh Saini: Kurukshetra
3. Suneeta Duggal: Sirsa
4. Sanjay Bhatia: Karnal
5. Ramesh Chandra Kaushik: Sonipat
6. Krishan Pal Gurjar: Faridabad
7. Rao Indrajeet Singh: Gurgaon
8. Bhiwani-Mahendragarh: Dharamveer Singh
9. Brijendra Singh: Hisar
10. Arvind Kumar Sharma: Rohtak
Karnataka:
1. Suresh Angadi: Belagavi
2. PC Gaddigoudar: Bagalkot
3. Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi: Bijapur
4. Umesh G Jadhav: Kalaburagi
5. Bhagwanth Khuba: Bidar
6. Devendrappa: Bellary
7. Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi: Haveri
8. Pralhad Joshi: Dharwad
9. Anant Kumar Hegde: Uttara Kannada
10. GM Siddeshwara: Davanagere
11. BY Raghavendra: Shimoga
12. Shobha Karandlaje: Udupi Chikmagalur
13. A Manju: Hassan
14. Nalin Kumar Kateel: Dakshina Kannada
15. A Narayana Swamy: Chitradurga
16. GS Basavaraj: Tumkur
17. Pratap Simha: Mysore
18. Srinivasa Prasad: Chamarajanagar
19. DV Sadananda Gowda: Bangalore North
20. PC Mohan: Bangalore Central
21. BN Bache Gowda: Chikballapur
22. S Muniswamy: Kolar
23. Ashwat Narain: Bangalore Rural
24. Tejaswi Surya: Bangalore South
25. Anna Saheb Jolle: Chikkodi
26. Sanganna Karadi: Koppal
27. Raja Amresh Nayak: Raichur
Jharkhand
1. Hemlal Murmu: Rajmahal
2. Sunil Soren: Dumka
3. Nishikant Dubey: Godda
4. Pashupati Nath Singh: Dhanbad
5. Bidyut Baran Mahato: Jamshedpur
6. Laxman Giluwa: Singhbhum
7. Arjun Munda: Khunti
8. Sudarshan Bhagat: Lohardaga
9. Vishnu Dayal Ram: Palamau
10. Jayant Sinha: Hazaribagh
11. Sunil Kumar Singh: Chatra
12. Sanjay Seth: Ranchi
13. Annapurna Devi Yadav: Kodarma
Kerala:
1. Raveesh Thantri Kuntar: Kasaragod
2. CK Padmanabhan: Kannur
3. VK Sajeevan: Vatakara
4. KP Prakash Babu: Kozhikode
5. Unnikrishnan Master: Malappuram
6. VT Rema: Ponnani
7. C Krishnakumar: Palakkad
8. AN Radhakrishnan: Chalakudy
9. Alphons Kannanthanam: Ernakulam
10. KS Radhakrishnan: Alappuzha
11. KV Sabu: Kollam
12. Shobha Surendran: Attingal
13. Kummanam Rajasekharan: Thiruvananthapuram
14. K Surendran: Pathanamthitta
15. Suresh Gopi: Thrissur
Maharashtra:
1. Heena Gavit: Nandurbar
2. Subhash Bhamre: Dhule
3. Raksha Khadse: Raver
4. Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre: Akola
5. Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas: Wardha
6. Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Nagpur
7. Ashok Mahadeorao Nete: Gadchiroli–Chimur
8. Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Chandrapur
9. Raosaheb Danve: Jalna
10. Kapil Moreshwar Patil: Bhiwandi
11. Poonam Mahajan: Mumbai North Central
12. Gopal Chinayya Shetty: Mumbai North
13. Sujay Vikhe Patil: Ahmednagar
14. Pritam Munde: Beed
15. Sudhakar Bhalerao Shrungare: Latur
16. Sanjaykaka Patil: Sangli
17. Unmesh Patil: Jalgaon
18. Pratap Patil Chikkalikar: Nanded
19. Dr Bharati Pawar: Dindori
20. Girish Bapat: Pune
21. Kanchan Rahul Kul: Baramati
22. Jaysidhesvar Swami: Solapur
23. Sunil Baburao Mendhe: Bhandara-Gondiya
24. Ranjeet Singh Hindurao Naik Nimbalkar: Madha
25. Manoj Kotak: Mumbai North-East
Gujarat:
1. Amit Shah: Gandhinagar
2. Vinod Bhai Chavda: Kachchh
3. Dipsinh Rathod: Sabarkatnaha
4. Kirit Solanki: Ahmedabad West
5. Mahendra Munjpara: Surendranagar
6. Mohan Kundariya: Rajkot
7. Poonamben Maadam: Jamnagar
8. Naranbhai Kachhadia: Amreli
9. Bharati Shiyal: Bhavnagar
10. Devusinh Chauhan: Kheda
11. Jashwantsinh Bhabhor: Dahod
12. Ranjanben Bhatt: Vadodara
13. Mansukhbhai Vasava: Bharuch
14. Prabhubhai Vasava: Bardoli
15. CR Patil: Navsari
16. KC Patel: Valsad
17. Parbat Bhai Patel: Banaskantha
18. Ramesh Dhaduk: Porbandar
19. Ratan Singh: Panchmahal
20. Rajesh Chudasama: Junagadh
21. Miteshbhai Patel: Anand
22. Geetaben Rathwa: Chhota Udaipur
23. Bharatsinh Dabhi Thakur: Patan
24. Sharda Ben Patel: Mahesana
25. Darshana Jardosh: Surat
26. Hasmukh S Patel: Ahmedabad East
Odisha:
1. Jual Oram: Sundargarh
2. Ananta Naik: Keonjhar
3. Pratap Sarangi: Balasore
4. Rudra Narayan Pani: Dhenkanal
5. Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo: Bolangir
6. Balbhadra Majhi: Nabarangpur
7. Baijayant Panda: Kendrapara
8. Aparajita Sarangi: Bhubaneswar
9. Anita Priyadarshini: Aska
10. Brughu Baxipatra: Berhampur
11. Nitesh Ganga Deb: Sambalpur
12. Basanta Kumar Panda: Kalahandi
13. Dr Sambit Patra: Puri
14. Jayaram Pangi: Koraput
15. Suresh Pujari: Bargarh
16. Kharbela Swain: Kandhamal
17. Prakash Mishra: Cuttack
18. Amiya Mallick: Jajpur
19. Abhimanyu Sethi: Bhadrak
20. Biswesar Tudu: Mayurbhanj
21. Bibhuprasad Tarai: Jagatsinghpur
Rajasthan:
1. Nihal Chand Chauhan: Ganganagar
2. Arjun Ram Meghwal: Bikaner
3. Narendra Khinchal: Jhunjhunu
4. Sumedhanand Saraswati: Sikar
5. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Jaipur Rural
6. Ramcharan Bohra: Jaipur
7. Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria: Tonk–Sawai Madhopur
8. Bhagirath Chaudhary: Ajmer
9. PP Chaudhary: Pali
10. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Jodhpur
11. Devji Mansinghram Patel: Jalore
12. Arjunlal Meena: Udaipur
13. CP Joshi: Chittorgarh
14. Subhash Chandra Baheria: Bhilwara
15. Om Birla: Kota
16. Dushyant Singh: Jhalawar-Baran
17. Rahul Kaswan: Churu
18. Balak Nath: Alwar
19. Kanakmal Katara: Banswara
20. Ranjeeta Kohli: Bharatpur
21. Manoj Rajuriya: Karauli-Dholpur
22. Kailash Chaudhry: Barmer
23. Diya Kumari: Rajsamand
24. Jaskaur Meena: Dausa
Telangana:
1. Bandi Sanjay: Karimnagar
2. D Aravind: Nizamabad
3. N Ramchandra Rao: Malkajgiri
4. G Kishan Reddy: Secunderabad
5. DK Aruna: Mahbubnagar
6. Bangaru Shruthi: Nagarkurnool
7. Garlapati Jithender Kumar: Nalgonda
8. PV Shamsunder Rao: Bhongir
9. Chinta Sambamurthy: Warangal
10. Jatothu Hussain Naik: Mahabubabad
11. Soyam Babu Rao: Adilabad
12. S. Kumar: Peddapalle
13. Banala Laxma Reddy: Zahirabad
14. Dr Bhagwanth Rao: Hyderabad
15. B Janardhan Reddy: Chevella
16. Vasudev Rao: Khammam
17. Raghunanadan Rao: Medak
Tamil Nadu:
1. Pon Radhakrishnan: Kanyakumari
2. Tamilisai Soundararajan: Thoothukudi
3. Nainar Nagendran: Ramanathapuram
4. H Raja: Sivaganga
5. CP Radhakrishnan: Coimbatore
Tripura:
1. Rebati Tripura: Tripura West
2. Pratima Bhaumik: Tripura East
Uttarakhand:
1. Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah: Tehri Garhwal
2. Tirath Singh Rawat: Garhwal
3. Ajay Tamta: Almora
4. Ajay Bhatt: Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar
5. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank: Haridwar
Goa:
1. Shripad Yesso Naik: North Goa
2. Narendra Keshav Sawaikar: South Goa
West Bengal:
1. Nisith Pramanik: Coochbehar
2. John Barla: Alipurduars
3. Dr Jayanta Ray: Jalpaiguri
4. Deboshree Chaudhary: Raiganj
5. Khagen Murmu: Maldaha Uttar
6. Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury: Maldaha Dakshin
7. Kalyan Chowbey: Krishnanagar
8. Arjun Singh: Barrackpur
9. Samik Bhattacharya: Dum Dum
10. Dr Mrinal Kanthi Debnath: Barasat
11. Sayantan Basu: Basirhat
12. Dr Ashok Kandari: Jaynagar
13. Shyamaprasad Halder: Mathurapur
14. Prof. Anupam Hazra: Jadavpur
15. Chandra Kumar Bose: Kolkata Dakshin
16. Rahul Sinha: Kolkata Uttar
17. Debajit Sarkar: Serampore
18. Locket Chatterjee: Hooghly
19. Tapan Roy: Arambagh
20. Siddharth Naskar: Tamluk
21. Bharati Ghosh: Ghatal
22. Dr Kunar Hembram: Jhargram
23. Dilip Ghosh: Medinipur
24. Soumitra Khan: Bishnupur
25. Paresh Chandra Das: Bardhaman Purba
26. Babul Supriyo: Asansol
27. Dudh Kumar Mondal: Birbhum
28. Dr Sukanta Majumdar: Balurghat
29. Mafuja Khatun: Jangipur
30. Krishna Arya: Baharampur
31. Humayun Kabir: Murshidabad
32. Ram Prasad Das: Bolpur
33. Subhash Sarkar: Bankura
34. Debashish Samant: Kanthi
35. Joy Banerjee: Uluberia
36. Rantidev Sen Gupta: Howrah
37. Nilanjan Roy: Diamond Harbour
38. Shantanu Thakur: Bangaon
39. Mukut Mani Adhikari: Ranaghat
40. Raju Singh Bisht: Darjeeling
41. SS Ahluwalia: Bardhaman-Durgapur
42. Jyotirmoy Mahto: Purulia
Lakshadweep:
1. Abdul Khader: Lakshadweep
Uttar Pradesh:
1. Narendra Modi: Varanasi
2. Raghav Lakhanpal: Saharanpur
3. Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Muzaffarnagar
4. Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar: Moradabad
5. Parmeshwar Lal Saini: Sambhal
6. Kanwar Singh Tanwar: Amroha
7. Rajendra Agrawal: Meerut
8. Satya Pal Singh: Baghpat
9. Vijay Kumar Singh: Ghaziabad
10. Mahesh Sharma: Gautam Buddha Nagar
11. Satish Kumar Gautam: Aligarh
12. Hema Malini: Mathura
13. SP Singh Baghel: Agra
14. Raj Kumar Chaher: Fatehpur Sikri
15. Rajveer Singh: Etah
16. Sangh Mitra Maurya: Badaun
17. Dharmendra Kumar: Aonla
18. Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Bareilly
19. Arun Sagar: Shahjahanpur
20. Ajay Kumar Mishra: Kheri
21. Rajesh Verma: Sitapur
22. Jai Prakash Rawat: Hardoi
23. Ashok Rawat: Misrikh
24. Swami Sakshi Maharaj: Unnao
25. Kaushal Kishore: Mohanlalganj
26. Rajnath Singh: Lucknow
27: Smriti Irani: Amethi
28. Kunwar Bharatendra Singh: Bijnor
29. Pradeep Choudhary: Kairana
30. Dr Yashwant Singh: Nagina
31. Bhola Singh: Bulandshahr
32. Rajveer Singh Balmiki: Hathras
33. Jaya Prada: Rampur
34. Varun Gandhi: Pilibhit
35. Rekha Verma: Dhaurahra
36. Maneka Gandhi: Sultanpur
37. Mukesh Rajpoot: Farrukhabad
38. Ram Shankar Katheria: Etawah
39. Subrat Pathak: Kannauj
40. Satyadev Pachauri: Kanpur
41. Devendra Singh Bhole: Akbarpur
42. Bhanu Pratap Verma: Jalaun
43. Pushpendra Singh Chandel: Hamirpur
44. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Fatehpur
45. Vinod Sonkar: Kaushambi
46. Rita Bahuguna Joshi: Allahabad
47. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh: Kaiserganj
48. Akshaywar Lal Gaud: Bahraich
49. Lallu Singh: Faizabad
50. Upendra Rawat: Barabanki
51. Daddan Mishra: Shrawasti
52. Jagdambika Pal: Domariyaganj
53. Kirti Vardhan Singh: Gonda
54. Harish Dwivedi: Basti
55. Vijay Dubey: Kushi Nagar
56. Pankaj Chaudhary: Maharajganj
57. Kamlesh Paswan: Bansgaon
58. Ravindra Kushwaha: Salempur
59. Virendra Singh Mast: Ballia
60. Manoj Sinha: Ghazipur
61. Mahendra Nath Pandey: Chandauli
62. Dr Chandra Sen Jadun: Firozabad
63. Prem Singh Shakya: Mainpuri
64. Dinesh Pratap Singh: Rae Bareli
65. Dinesh Lal Yadav: Azamgarh
66. VP Saroj: Machhlishahr
67. Anurag Sharma: Jhansi
68. RK Patel: Banda
69. Keshri Patel: Phulpur
70. Nilam Sonkar: Lalganj
71. Sangam Lal Gupta: Pratapgarh
72. Mukut Bihari: Ambedkar Nagar
73. Praveen Nishad: Sant Kabir Nagar
74. Ravi Kishan: Gorakhpur
75. Ramapati Ram Tripathi: Deoria
76. KP Singh: Jaunpur
77. Ramesh Bind: Bhadohi
78. Harinarayan Rajbhar: Ghosi
Chhattisgarh:
1. Renuka Singh: Sarguja
2. Gomtee Sai: Raigarh
3. Guharam Ajgale: Janjgir-Champa
4. Baiduram Kashyap: Bastar
5. Mohan Mandavi: Kanker
6. Santhosh Pandey: Rajnandgaon
7. Vijay Baghel: Durg
8. Sunil Soni: Raipur
9. Chunnilal Sahu: Mahasamund
10. Arun Saw: Bilaspur
11. Jyoti Nand Dubey: Korba
Assam:
1. Kripanath Mallah: Karimganj
2. Rajdeep Roy Bengali: Silchar
3. Haren Singh Bey: Autonomous District
4. Queen Oja: Gauhati
5. Dilip Saikia: Mangaldoi
6. Tapan Gogoi: Jorhat
7. Rameswar Teli: Dibrugarh
8. Pradan Baruah: Lakhimpur
9. Pallab Lochan Das: Tezpur
10. Rupak Sharma: Nowgong
Andaman and Nicobar Island:
1. Vishal Jolly: Andaman and Nicobar Island
Sikkim:
1. Laten Tshering Sherpa: Sikkim
Jammu and Kashmir:
1. MM War: Baramulla
2. Khalid Jehangir: Srinagar
3. Sofi Yousuf: Anantnag
4. Jitendra Singh: Udhampur
5. Jugal Kishore Sharma: Jammu
6. Jamyang Tsering Namgyal: Ladakh
1. Daggubati Purandeswari: Visakhapatnam
2. Kanna Lakshminarayana: Narasaraopet
3. KVV Satyanarayan Reddy: Araku
4. Perla Sambamurti: Srikakulam
5. P Sanyasi Raju: Vizianagaram
6. Gandi Venkata Satyanarayana: Anakapalli
7. Yalla Venkata Ramamohana Rao: Kakinada
8. Ayyaji Vema Manepalli: Amalapuram
9. Satya Gopinath Dasparavasthu: Rajahmundry
10. Paidikonda Manikyala Rao: Narasapuram
11. Chinnam Ramkotaya: Eluru
12. Gudivaka Ramanjaneyulu: Machilipatnam
13. Dilip Kumar Kilaru: Vijayawada
14. Valluru Jayaprakash Narayana: Guntur
15. Challagali Kishore Kumar: Bapatla
16. Thogunta Srinivas: Ongole
17. Dr Adinarayana Inti: Nandyal
18. Dr PV Parthasarthi: Kurnool
19. Hamsa Devineni: Anantapur
20. Pogala Venkata Parthasarthi: Hindupur
21. Singa Reddy Ramchandra Reddy: Kadapa
22. Suresh Reddy Sannapareddy: Nellore
23. Bommi Srihari Rao: Tirupati
24. Pappireddi Maheswara Reddy: Rajampet
25. Jayaram Duggani: Chittoor
1. Kiren Rijiju: Arunachal West
2. Tapir Gao: Arunachal East
Daman and Diu:
1. Lalubhai Patel: Daman and Diu
Meghalaya:
1. Sanbor Shullai: Shillong
2. Rikman G Momim: Tura
Mizoram:
1. Nirupam Chakma: Mizoram
Manipur:
1. KK Ranjan Singh: Inner Manipur
2. H Shokhopao Meitei: Outer Manipura
Dadra and Nagar Haveli:.
1. Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel: Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Chandigarh:
1. Kirron Kher: Chandigarh