Actors including Kangana Ranaut from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Arun Govil from his hometown of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh...
Digital Desk: The BJP released its fifth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in April and May on Sunday, and it included some well-known figures. From various Lok Sabha seats, the party has fielded 111 candidates.
Stars Kangana Ranaut from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Arun Govil from his hometown of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh—who gained notoriety for playing Lord Ram in the hit TV series Ramayan—have both been nominated by the saffron party.
The BJP has also fielded other powerful candidates, including former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh N Kiran Kumar Reddy from Rajampet, union ministers Nithyanand Rai from Ujiarpur and Giriraj Singh from Begusarai, industrialist Naveen Jindal from Kurukshetra in Haryana, JMM supremo Shibu Soren's daughter-in-law Sita Soren from Jharkhand's Dumka, former chief minister of Karnataka Jagadish Shettar from Belgaum in Karnataka, Sambit Patra from Puri in Odisha, Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, and former chief minister of West Bengal BJP Dilip Ghosh from Bardhaman-Durgapur in West Bengal.
Full list of 111 candidates fielded by the BJP:
Araku- Kothapalli Geetha
Anakapalle- CM Ramesh
Rajahmundry- D Purandareshwari
Narsapuram- Bupathiraju Srinivas Verma
Tirupati- Varaprasad Rao
Rajampet- N Kiran Kumar Reddy
Paschim Champaran- Sanjay Jaiswal
Purvi Champaran- Radha Mohan Singh
Madhubani- Ashok Kumar Yadav
Araria- Pradeep Kumar Singh
Darbhanga- Gopal Jee Thakur
Muzaffarpur- Raj Bhushan Nishad
Maharajganj- Janardan Singh Sigriwal
Saran- Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Ujiarpur- Nithyanand Rai
Begusarai- Giriraj Singh
Patna Sahib- Ravi Shankar Prasad
Pataliputra- Ram Kripal Yadav
Arrah- RK Singh
Buxar- Mithilesh Tiwari
Sasaram- Shivesh Ram
Aurangabad- Sushil Kumar Singh
Nawada- Vivek Thakur
South Goa- Pallavi Shrinivas Dempo
Mahesana- Haribhai Patel
Sabarkantha- Shobhnaben Mahendrasinh Baraiya
Surendranagar- Chandubhai Chhaganbhai Shihora
Junagadh- Rajeshbhai Chudasama
Amreli- Bharatbhai Manubhai Sutariya
Vadodara- Hemang Yogeshchandra Joshi
Kurukshetra- Naveen Jindal
Hisar- Ranjit Chautala
Sonipat- Mohan Lal Badoli
Rohtak- Arvind Kumar Sharma
Kangra- Rajeev Bharadwaj
Mandi- Kangana Ranaut
Dumka- Sita Soren
Chatra- Kalicharan Singh
Dhanbad- Dulu Mahato
Belgaum- Jagadish Shettar
Raichur- Raja Amareshwara Naik
Uttara Kannada- Vishweshwar Hedge Kageri
Chikkballapur- K Sudhakar
Wayanad- K Surendran
Alathur- TN Sarasu
Ernakulam- KS Radhakrishnan
Kollam- G Krishnakumar
Bhandara-Gondiya- Sunil Baburao Mendhe
Gadchiroli-Chimur- Ashok Mahadev Rao Nete
Solapur- Ram Satpute
Mizoram- Vanlalhmuaka
Bargarh- Pradeep Purohit
Sundargarh- Jual Oram
Sambalpur- Dharmendra Pradhan
Keonjhar- Ananta Nayak
Mayurbhanj- Naba Charan Manjhi
Balasore- Pratap Chandra Sarangi
Bhadrak- Avimanyu Sethi
Dhenkanal- Rudra Narayan Pany
Bolangir- Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
Kalahandi- Malvika Keshari Deo
Nabarangpur- Balabhadra Majhi
Kendrapara- Baijayant 'Jay' Panda
Jagatsinghpur- Bibhu Prasad Tarai
Puri- Sambit Patra
Bhubaneswar- Aparajita Sarangi
Aska- Anita Subhadarshini
Behrampur- Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy
Koraput- Kaleram Majhi
Ganganagar- Priyanka Balan
Jhunjhunu- Shubhkaran Choudhary
Jaipur Rural- Rao Rajendra Singh
Jaipur- Manju Sharma
Tonk-Sawai Madhopur- Sukhbir Singh Jaunaparia
Ajmer- Bhagirath Chaudhary
Rajsamand- Mahima Vishweswar Singh
Sikkim- Dinesh Chandra Nepal
Warangal- Aroori Ramesh
Khammam- Tandra Vinod Rao
Saharanpur- Raghav Lakhanpal
Moradabad- Sarvesh Singh
Meerut- Arun Govil
Ghaziabad- Atul Garg
Aligarh- Satish Gautam
Hathras- Anoop Valmiki
Budaun- Durvijay Singh Shakya
Bareilly- Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar
Pilibhit- Jitin Prasada
Sultanpur- Maneka Gandhi
Kanpur- Ramesh Awasthi
Barabanki- Rajrani Rawat
Bahraich- Anand Gond
Jalpaiguri- Jayanta Roy
Darjeeling- Raju Bista
Raiganj- Kartick Paul
Jangipur- Dhananjay Ghosh
Krishnanagar- Rajmata Amrita Roy
Barrackpur- Arjun Singh
Dum Dum- Silbhadra Dutta
Barasat- Swapan Majumder
Basirhat- Rekha Patra
Mathurapur- Ashok Purakit
Kolkata Dakshin- Debashree Chaudhary
Kolkata Uttar- Tapas Roy
Uluberia- Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury
Sreerampur- Kabir Shankar Bose
Arambagh- Arup Kanti Digar
Tamluk- Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay
Medinipur- Agnimitra Paul
Bardhaman Purba- Ashim Kumar Sarkar
Bardhaman-Durgapur- Dilip Ghosh
It is to be noted that the Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1 and the counting of votes will take place on June 4.
