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Modi sticks to Varanasi, Shah to contest Gandhinagar
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Mar, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from his Varanasi
constituency while BJP President Amit Shah will make his debut in Lok
Sabha polls from Gandhinagar, BJP leader J.P. Nadda announced on
Thursday.
The Gandhinagar seat is currently held by veteran
Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, who has been winning the seat
consecutively from 1998.
Among the prominent leaders announced
in BJP's first list, which had 184 names across 20 states, were Union
Ministers Rajnath Singh, who will contest again from Lucknow, Nitin
Gadkari from Nagpur, Gen. V. K. Singh (retd) from Ghaziabad, Gajendra
Singh Shekhawat from Jodhpur and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore from Jaipur
Rural.
All are sitting MPs from these seats.
Union
Minister Smriti Irani will again face Congress President Rahul Gandhi in
Amethi, while film actress-turned politician Hema Malini will contest
from her Mathura seat.
Union Ministers Jitendra Singh
(Jammu-Udhampur), Mahesh Sharma (Gautam Buddh Nagar), D.V. Sadananda
Gowda (Bengaluru North), Arjun Ram Meghwal (Bikaner), Pon Radhakrishnan
(Kanniyakumari), Hansraj Ahir (Chandrapur) and Subhash Bhamre (Dhule)
will also contest from the seats they hold.
Nadda also said that
candidates for all the 17 seats it will contest in Bihar have been
cleared by the party's Central Election Committee and sent to the state
election panel. These will be announced subsequently, he said.
Among
other prominent candidates, former Union Minister Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
will fight from his Muzaffarnagar seat against Rashtriya Lok Dal chief
Ajit Singh, while Union Minister Satyapal Singh will again contest from
his Baghpat seat against the RLD chief's son Jayant Chaudhary.
In
Bengal, Union Minister Babul Supriyo will fight to retain his Asanol
seat, where he will face Trinamool Congress's Moon Moon Sen, who has
shifted from Bankura. The BJP has also fielded Bengali film actress
Locket Chatterjee from Hooghly.
The party has also fielded former
Trinamool leaders Anupam Hazra, who will contest against film
actress-turned-Trinamool candidate Mimi Chakraborty in Jadavpur, and
Saumitra Khan in Bishnupur. Khagen Murmu, who switched over to the party
from the Communist Party of India-Marxist, will face sitting MP Mausam
Noor, who quit the Congress for the Trinamool, in Malda North.
The BJP also fielded Baijayant 'Jay' Panda, who had quit Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal to join it, from Kendrapara.
BJP's
Kerala strongman Kummanam Rajasekharan, who recently quit as Mizoram
Governor, will fight against Congress's Shashi Tharoor in
Thiruvanthapuram, while Union Minister K.J. Alphons will contest from
Ernakulam.
The BJP also fielded its Tamil Nadu unit chief
Tamilisai Soundararajan from Thoothukudi from where DMK's K. Kanimozhi
is contesting.
Nadda, who had announced that Minister of State
from Home Kiren Rijiju will contest from Arunanchal East, later
corrected himself, saying he would be contesting again from Arunachal
West.
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