BJP Candidates 2nd List Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP released the second list of candidates on Wednesday (13 March) regarding the Lok Sabha elections 2024. BJP has announced candidates for the remaining two seats of Delhi. Harsh Malhotra has been given ticket from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi. Whereas, Kalaben Delkar has got the ticket from Dadar Nagar Haveli.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur has been made the candidate from Hamirpur Lok Sabha seat of Himachal. Whereas, Prahlad Joshi from Dharwad, Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, Manohar Lal Khattar from Karnal have been made candidates. BJP has made Ashok Tanwar its candidate from Sirsa.
The names of Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal and former minister of state Pankaja Munde were included in the list of BJP candidates for 20 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. While Gadkari was given the ticket again from the Nagpur seat, commerce ministers Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North) and Pankaja Munde (Beed) are among the eight new faces in the list. Pankaja replaced her younger sister and sitting MP Pritam Munde. Gadkari’s name was not in the BJP’s first list, after which Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray gave him an open offer to contest the elections as an opposition candidate.
Another new face in the second list is state forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar (Chandrapur). Apart from this, all the Union Ministers of Maharashtra were given tickets again. The party has fielded local leader Smita Wagh in place of Lok Sabha member Unmesh Patil from Jalgaon. In this list, Anup Dhotre has replaced his father and current Akola MP Sanjay Dhotre. From Pune, the party has fielded former mayor Muralidhar Mohol. This seat is vacant after the death of sitting BJP MP Girish Bapat. MLA Mihir Kotecha has been fielded from Mumbai North-East in place of sitting MP Manoj Kotak.
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BJP’s shocking strategy
In anticipation of the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections, the BJP has released its list of candidates for Maharashtra. There has been a buzz in political circles regarding the BJP candidates in Maharashtra for several days. The list reveals some surprising tactics by the BJP, including the re-nomination of some sitting MPs. However, the party has decided to cancel the tickets of sitting MPs from North Mumbai and North East Mumbai. Piyush Goyal has been nominated for the North Mumbai seat, while Mihir Kotecha will contest from North East Mumbai.
Whose ticket was cancelled?
Those who have not been given tickets by BJP mainly include the name of BJP’s North Mumbai MP Gopal Shetty. In his place, Union Minister and Rajya Sabha member Piyush Goyal has been made the candidate. Apart from this, after giving ticket to Pankaja Munde from Beed, the ticket of her sister Pritam Munde has been canceled. Whereas from North East Lok Sabha constituency, BJP has given a shock to Manoj Kotak by giving ticket to MLA Mihir Kotecha. BJP has given ticket to Smita Wagh in place of sitting MP Unmesh Patil from Jalgaon. In Akola, instead of MP Sanjay Dhotre, his son Anoop Dhotre has been given the ticket.
BJP gave tickets to these candidates in the second list
Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
Dadra & Nagar Haveli- Kalaben Delkar
Delhi
East Delhi- Harsh Malhotra
North West Delhi (SC)- Yogendra Chandolia
Gujarat
Sabarkantha- Bhikhaji Dudhaji Thakor
Ahmedabad East- Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel
Bhavnagar- Nimbuen Bambhania
Vadodara- Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt
Chhota Udaipur (ST)- Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa
Surat- Mukeshbhai Chandrakant Dalal
Valsad (ST)- Dhawal Patel
Haryana
Ambala- Banto Kataria
Sirsa- Ashok Tanwar
Karnal- Manohar Lal Khattar
Bhiwani- Mahendragarh- Chaudhary Dharambir Singh
Gurgaon- Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav
Faridabad- Krishna Pal Gurjar
Himachal Pradesh
Hamirpur- Anurag Singh Thakur
Shimla (SC)- Suresh Kumar Kashyap
Karnataka
Chikkodi- Annasaheb Shankar Jolle
Bagalkot- PC Gaddigowder
Bijapur (SC)- Ramesh Jigjingi
Gulbarga (SC)- Umesh G Jadhav
Bidar- Bhagwant Khuba
Koppal- Basavaraj Kyavatur
Bellary (ST)- B Sriramulu
Haveri- Basavaraj Bommai
Dharwad- Pralhad Joshi
Davangere- Gayatri Siddeshwar
Shimoga- Shri Y Raghavendra
Udupi Chikmangalore- Kota Srinivas Pujari
South Kannada- Capt. Brijesh Chouta
Tumkur- V Somanna
Mysore- Yaduveer Krishnadutt Chamraj Wadiyar
Chamrajnagar (SC)- S Balraj
Bangalore Rural- Dr. CN Manjunath
Bangalore North- Kumari Shobha Karandlaje
Bangalore Central- PC Mohan
Bangalore South- Tejaswi Surya
Madhya Pradesh
Balaghat- Dr. Bharti Parthi
Chhindwara- Vivek ‘Bunty’ Sahu
Ujjain (SC)- Anil Firoziya
Dhar (ST)- Savitri Thakur
Indore- Shankar Lalwani
Maharashtra
Nandurbar (ST)- Dr. Hina Vijayakumar Gavit
Dhule – Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre
Jalgaon- Smita Wagh
Raver- Raksha Nikhil Khadse
Akola- Anup Dhotre
Wardha- Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas
Nagpur- Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Chandrapur- Sudhir Mungantiwar
Nanded- Prataprao Patil Chikhlikar
Jalna- Raosaheb Dadarao Danve
Dindori (ST)- Dr. Bharti Praveen Pawar
Bhiwandi- Kapil Moreshwar Patil
Mumbai North- Piyush Goyal
Mumbai North East- Mihir Kotecha
Pune- Muralidhar Kishan Mohol
Ahmednagar- Dr. Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
Beed- Pankaja Munde
Latur (SC)- Sudhakar Tukaram Shringare
Madha- Ranjitsinha Hindurao Naik Nimbalkar
Sangli- Sanjaykaka Patil
Telangana
Adilabad (ST)- Godown Nagesh
Peddapalle (SC)- Gomasa Srinivas
Medak- Madhavaneni Raghunandan Rao
Mahabubnagar- DK Aruna
Nalgonda- Sayeeda Reddy
Mahabubabad (ST)- Professor Ajmira Sitaram Naik
Tripura
Tripura East (ST)- Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma
Uttarakhand
Garhwal- Anil Baluni
Haridwar- Trivendra Singh Rawat
Names of 195 candidates were in BJP’s first list.
BJP had released the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 on March 2, which had 195 names. The names of Prime Minister Modi (Varanasi), Amit Shah (Gandhinagar) and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh (Lucknow) were also included in the first list. .
The names of 34 Union ministers were included in the first list while the tickets of three ministers were canceled. The party’s first list included 28 women and 47 youth, while 27 candidates are from Scheduled Caste, 18 from Scheduled Tribe and 57 from Other Backward Class.
The list includes 51 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 20 in West Bengal, 24 in Madhya Pradesh, 15-15 seats in Gujarat and Rajasthan, 12-12 seats in Kerala and Telangana, 11-11 seats in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Assam and five in Delhi. Candidates were announced in some other states and union territories including the seat. Let us tell you that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a target of winning 300 seats for BJP and more than 400 seats for NDA in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
