Lok Sabha polls: Top BJP candidates and their constituencies from the first list
Lok Sabha polls which mentioned top leaders of the saffron party such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and others.
Announcing the list, BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde said the party is confident that it would form the government for the third term under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a much bigger mandate.
Here are BJP's top contenders and their seats from the first list:
- Narendra Modi- Varanasi
- Rajeev Chandrasekhar- Thiruvananthapuram
- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia- Guna
- Amit Shah- Gandhinagar
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan- Vidhisha
- Om Birla- Kota
- Rajnath Singh- Lucknow
- Smriti Irani- Amethi
- Mansukh Mandaviya- Porbandar
- Nishikant Dubey- Godda
- Dushyant Singh- Jhalawar
- Hema Malini- Mathura
The announcement of BJP's first list at a press conference comes after an over five-hour-long meeting of the BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) on Thursday night.
The CEC members, which included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party's national president J P Nadda and Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, had discussed the probables for states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa and Uttarakhand among others to finalise the nominees.
Before that, Shah and Nadda had met PM Modi at his residence to hold consultations.
The next CEC meeting is expected to be held next week to discuss further names.
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