BJP names 111 more candidates for LS polls; Kangana Ranaut, Sita Soren among top choices in 5th list

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• Mar 25, 2024 | Guriya Khatun

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.