BJP releases 5th list of candidates with 111 names; fields Kangana Ranaut from Mandi, Ramayan actor Arun Govil also gets ticket
Lok Sabha polls. The saffron party has fielded Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, a stronghold of Congress.
The party has released the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.
BJP has fielded K Surendran, its Kerala unit president from Wayanad, from where Rahul Gandhi is sitting MP.
The party has given a ticket to Arun Govil who played the character of Lord Ram in Ramanand Sagar's 'Ramayan' from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut.
Rekha Patra who is a Sandeshkhali victim is set to contest for BJP from Basirhat constituency.
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay has been fielded from Tamluk constituency. BJP MP Maneka Gandhi has been given a ticket from Sultanpur.
Gen VK Singh has been dropped from Ghaziabad.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra will contest from Puri. BJP has dropped Varun Gandhi and has fielded Jitin Prasad in his place.
Industrialist and former Congress MP Naveen Jindal has been fielded from Kurukshetra.
Sita Soren, the Jama legislator from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), who resigned from her post recently has been given a ticket from Dumka.
The party named MLA Ram Satpute for the Solapur (Scheduled Caste) Lok Sabha seat and retained MP Sunil Mendhe from Bhandara-Gondiya.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Vivek Thakur has been fielded from Nawada, Bihar.
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