BJP candidate list 2024: Rajya Sabha route not any more for these 7 ministers. Details here

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195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections here in the national capital on March 2. While at least 42 of the candidates who were elected to Parliament in 2019, have been replaced with new names, the party has also fielded at least ministers who are currently Rajya Sabha members. Among the big BJP ministers, who are Rajya Sabha members and will contest elections include Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya who will be contesting from Porbandar in Gujarat and junior IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who will contest from Thiruvananthapuram seat, which is held by the Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.

Another Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is the Union Civil Aviation Minister, will contest from Guna in Madhya Pradesh. Scindia, a former Congress leader had held Guna since 2002 until his loss to the BJP's Krishna Pal Singh Yadav in 2019. Scindia's fellow Rajya Sabha colleague and Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav has been fielded from Alwar in Rajasthan while Union Fisheries Minister Purshotam Rupala has been fielded from Rajkot in Gujarat.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan will contest from Attingal as mentioned in the first list. Follow all live updates on BJP's first list of candidates here Sarbananda Sonowal, who is serving as the current Cabinet Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Cabinet Minister of AYUSH and is a Rajya Sabha representing Assam since 2021 has been fielded from Dibrugarh in Assam. Earlier this month, at least seven union ministers whose Rajya Sabha terms end in April were not re-nominated by the ruling BJP.