NF Bureau: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections 2019 were announced on Thursday.
A list of 184 names were announced by BJP leader J.P Nadda today.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi, Amit Shah will contest polls from Gandhinagar in place of LK Advani.
Similarly, Rajnath Singh will contest from Lucknow and Nitin Gadkari likely to contest from Nagpur.
Smriti Irani will take on Rahul Gandhi from Amethi again.
The polls to be held in seven phases across the country begin April 11 and the counting of the votes will be held on May 23.
Here are the prominent names that were announced in the first list
Narendra Modi – Varanasi
Amit Shah – Gandhinagar
Rajnath Singh – Lucknow
Nitin Gadkari – Nagpur
Gen VK Singh – Ghaziabad
Smriti Irani – Amethi
Satyapal Singh – Baghpat
Poonam Mahajan – Mumbai North Central
Hema Malini – Mathura
Dr. Pritam Munde – Beed
Sanjeev Balyan – Muzaffarnagar
Dr. Mahesh Sharma – Gautam Buddh Nagar
Sakshi Maharaj – Unnao
Kiren Rijiju – Arunachal East
Jitendra Singh – Udhampur
Prahlad Venkatesh Joshi – Dharwad
Sadanand Gowda – Bangalore North
KJ Alphons – Ernakulam
Arjun Ram Meghwal – Bikaner
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – Jodhpur
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore – Jaipur Rural
CP Radhakrishnan – Coimbatore
Dilip Ghosh – Midnapore
Babul Supriyo – Asansol
Jugal Kishore – Jammu
Sofi Yousuf – Anantnag
Khalid Jehangir – Srinagar
Kummanam Rajasekharan – Thiruvananthapuram
KJ Alphons – Ernakulam
Rahul Sinha – Kolkata North
CK Bose – Kolkata South
Subhash Bhamre – Dhule
Hansraj Ahir – Chandrapur
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