Lok Sabha 2024: Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of Mysore royal family to contest on BJP ticket
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday named Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar of the Mysore royal family from Mysuru Lok Sabha seat in the second list of candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party replaced the two-term sitting MP Pratap Simha with the US-educated YKC Wadiyar of the Mysore royal family. Wadiyar is the adopted son of Pramodadevi Wadiyar, whose late husband Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar had also represented the Mysore Lok Sabha seat four times in the 1980s and 1990s.
The BJP today released the second list of candidates—having the names of 72 candidates—for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The second list includes the names of prominent faces like Anurag Thakur, former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Basavaraj Bommai, Piyush Goyal, and Anil Baluni. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways of India, is set to contest the Lok Sabha polls from the Nagpur Assembly seat.
The list fields Tejaswi Surya, BJP's youth wing chief, from Bangalore South, and former Karnataka chief minister Basavraj Bommai from Haveri. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting in India Anurag Thakur is set to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh. In Karnataka, Union minister Pralhad Joshi will fight from Dharwad while former chief minister B S Yediyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra will contest from Shimoga.
In Delhi, the saffron party has announced two new candidates —Harsh Malhotra from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi. BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand. It is important to note that the BJP has re-nominated three union ministers, and three chief ministers
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