The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced the names of its 48 more candidates (including on independent candidate) spanning the six states of Goa, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka.
The list has candidates for both of Goa's seats, 15 from Gujarat, 10 from Jharkhand, 15 from Madhya Pradesh and all four from Himachal and two from Karnataka (including one independent).
With these names, the BJP has so far declared a total of 297 candidates out of which one is an independent candidate to which the party has decided to support in the forthcoming general elections. "We will support Sumalatha as the independent candidate from Mandya (Karnataka)," said senior party leader JP Nadda while addressing a press conference in the national capital.
Other big names in the sixth list are Anurag Thakur from Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh), Suresh Kashyap from Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Kishan Kapoor from Kangra (Himachal Pradesh) and Nishikant Dubey from Godda (Jharkhand).
Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Jayant Sinha, Shripad Naik to contest from Morena (Madhya Pradesh), Hazaribagh (Jharkhand) and North Goa seats.
Check out all the names in BJP’s sixth list here:
Goa
1.Shripad Yesso Naik: North Goa
2.Narendra Keshav Sawaikar: South Goa
Madhya Pradesh
1.Narendra Singh Tomar: Morena
2.Sandhya Rai: Bhind (SC)
3.Virendra Kumar Khateek: Tikamgarh (SC)
4.Prahlad Patel: Damoh
5.Ganesh Singh: Satna
6.Janardan Mishra: Rewa
7.Riti Pathak: Sidhi
8.Himadri Singh: Shahdol (ST)
9.Rakesh Singh: Jabalpur
10.Faggan Singh Kulaste: Mandla (ST)
11.Rao Udai Pratap Singh: Hoshangabad
12.Anil Firojiya: Ujjain
13.Sudhir Gupta: Mandsour
14.Nand Kumar Singh Chouhan: Khandwa
15.Durgadas Uike: Betul
Gujarat
1.Vinod Bhai Chavda: Kachchh
2.Dipsinh Rathod: Sabarkatnaha
3.Kirit Solanki: Ahmedabad West
4.Mahendra Munjpara: Surendranagar
5.Mohan Kundariya: Rajkot
6.Poonamben Maadam: Jamnagar
7.Naranbhai Kachhadia: Amreli
8.Bharati Shiyal: Bhavnagar
9.Devusinh Chauhan: Kheda
10.Jashwantsinh Bhabhor: Dahod
11.Ranjanben Bhatt: Vadodara
12.Mansukhbhai Vasava: Bharuch
13.Prabhubhai Vasava: Bardoli
14.CR Patil: Navsari
15.KC Patel: Valsad
Jharkhand
1.Hemlal Murmu: Rajmahal
2.Sunil Soren: Dumka
3.Nishikant Dubey: Godda
4.Pashupati Nath Singh: Dhanbad
5.Vidhyut Varan Mahato: Jamshedpur
6.Laxman Giluva: Singhbhum
7.Arjun Munda: Khunti
8.Sudarshan Bhagat: Lohardaga
9.Vishnu Dayal Ram: Palamau
10.Jayant Sinha: Hazaribagh
Himachal Pradesh
1.Kishan Kapoor: Kangra
2.Ramswroop Sharma: Mandi
3.Anurag Thakur: Hamirpur
4.Suresh Kashyap: Shimla