The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its first list of candidates contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections which will be spread out over April and May and will take place in seven phases.
Prime Minister Modi will contest again from Varanasi. However, the BJP delivered a shocker when they announced that BJP president Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar in Gujarat and not BJP veteran LK Advani.
Here is the list of the constituencies and candidates-
Uttar Pradesh
Varanasi – Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Saharanpur – Raghav Lakhanpal
Muzaffarnagar – Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Bijnor – Kunwar Bharatendra Singh
Moradabad – Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar
Sambhal – Parmeshwar Lal Saini
Amroha – Kanwar Singh Tanwar
Meerut – Rajendra Agrawal
Baghpat – Dr Satya Pal Singh
Ghaziabad – Dr Vijay Kumar Singh
Gautam Buddha Nagar – Dr Mahesh Sharma
Aligarh – Satish Kumar Gautam
Mathura – Hema Malini
Agra – S P Singh Baghel
Fatehpur Sikhri – Raj Kumar Chaher
Etah – Rajveer Singh
Badaun – Sangh Mitra Maurya
Aonia – Dharmndra Kumar
Bareilly – Santosh Kumar Gangwar
Shahjahanpur – Arun Sagar
Keri – Ajay Kumar Mishra
Sitapur – Rajesh Verma
Hardoi – Jai Prakash Rawat
Misrikh – Ashok Rawat
Unnao – Swami Sakshi Ji Maharaj
Mohanlalganj – Kaushal Kishore
Lucknow – Rajnath Singh
Amethi – Smriti Irani
Maharashtra
Nandurbar – Dr Heena Vijaykumar Gavit
Dhule – Dr Subhash Ramrao Bhamre
Raver – Raksha Nikhil Khadse
Akola - Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre
Wardha – Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas
Nagpur – Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Gadchiroli 0 Chimur (SC) – Ashok Mahadeorao Nete
Chandrapur – Hansarj Gangaram Ahir
Jalna – Raosaheb Patil Danve
Bhiwandi Kapil Moreshwar Patil
Mumbai (North) – Gopal Chinayya Shetty
Mumbai (North-Central) – Poonam Mahajan
Ahmednagar – Sujay Vikhe
Beed – Dr Pritam Gopinath Munde
Latur (SC) -Sudhajkar Bhalerao Shrungare
Sangli – Sanjay (Kaka) Ramachandra Patil
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Vishal Jolly
Assam
Karmganj (SC) – Kripanath Malla
Silchar – Dr Rajdeep Roy Bengali
Autonomous District (ST) - Harensingh Bey
Gauhati – Queen Ojha
Mangaldoi – Dilip Saikia
Jorhat – Tapan Gogai
Dibrugarh - Rameswar Teli
Lakhmipur – Pradan Baruah
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal West – Tapri Gao
Arunachal East – Kiren Rijiju
Andhra Pradesh
Vishakapatnam – D Purandeshwari
Narasaraopet – Kanna Lakshminarayana
Chhattisgarh
Suruja (ST) – Renuka Singh
Raigarh (ST) – Gomtee Sai
Janjgir-Champa (SC) – Guharam Ajgale
Bastar (ST) – Baiduram Kashyap
Kanker (ST) – Mohan Mandavi
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Dadra and Nagar Haveli (ST) – Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel
Jammu & Kashmir
Baramulla – M M War
Srinagar – Khalid Jahangir
Anantnag – Sofi Youssaf
Udhampur – Dr Jitendra singh
Jammu - Jugal Kishore Sharma
Karnataka
Belgaum – Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi
Bagalkot – Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar
Bijapur (SC) – Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi
Gulbarga (SC) – Umesh Jadhav
Bidar – Bhagwanth Khuba
Bellary – Devendrappa
Haveri – Shivkumar Chanabasappa
Dharwad – Prahlad Venkatesh Joshi
Uttara Kannada – Anantkumar Hegde
Davanagare – Gowdar M Siddeshwara
Shimoga - B Y Raghavendra
Udupi Chikmagalur – Shibha Karandlaje
Hassan – A Manju
Dakshina Kannada – Nalin Kumar Kateel
Chitradurga (SC) – A Narayana Swamy
Tumkur – G S Basavaraju
Mysore – Prathap Simha
Chamrajanagar – Srinivasa Prasad
Bangalore North – D V Sadananda Gowda
Bangalore Central – P C Mohan
Chikballapur – B N Bachchegowda
Kerala
Kasargod – Raveesh Thanti Kuntar
Kannur – CK Padmanabhan
Vadakara – V K Sajeevan
Kozhikode – Adv K P Prakash Babu
Malappuram – Unnikrishnan Master
Ponnani – Professor V T Rema
Palakkad – C Krishnakumar
Chalakudy – A N Radhakrishnan
Ernakulam – Alphonese Kannanthana
Alappuzha – Dr K S Radhakrishnan
Kollam – K V Sabu
Attingal – Sobha Surendran
Thiruvananthapuram – Summanam Rajasekharan
Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep (ST) – Abdul Khader
Manipur
Inner Manipur – K K Ranjan Singh
Outer Manipur (ST) – H Shokhopao Mate (Benjamin)
Mizoram
Mizoram (ST) – Nirupam Chakma
Odisha
Sundargarh – Jual Oram
Keonjhar (ST) – Ananta Naik
Balasore – Pratap Sarangi
Dhenkanal – Rudra Narayan Pani
Bolangir – Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
Nabarangpur (ST) – Balabhadra Majhi
Kendrapara – Baijaiyant Panda
Bhubaneswar – Aparajita Sarangi
Aska – Anita Priyadharshni
Berhampur – Brughu Baxipatra
Rajasthan
Ganganagar (SC) – Nihal Chand Chauhan
Bikaner (SC) – Arjun Ram Meghwal
Jhunjhunu – Narendra Khinchal
Sikar – Sumedhanand Saraswati
Jaipur (Rural) Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Jaipur – Ramcharan Bohra
Tonk-Sawai Madhopar – Sukhbir Singh Jaunpuria
Ajmer – Bhagirath Chaudhary
Pali – P P Choudhary
Jodhpur – Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Jalore – Devji Mansingram Patel
Udaipur – Arjunlal Meena
Chittorgarh – C P Joshi
Bhilwara – Subhash Chandra Baheria
Kota – Om Birla
Jhalawar-Baran - Dushyant Singh
Sikkim
Sikkim – Laten Tshering Sherpa
Tamil Nadu
Coimbatore – C P Radhakrishnan
Sivaganga – H Raja
Ramanathapuram – Nainar Nagendran
Kanniyakumari – Pon. Radhakrishnan
Thoothukudi – Tamilisai Soundarrajan
Telangana
Karimnagar – Bandi Sanjay
Nizamabad – D Aravind
Malkagiri – N Ramachandra Rao
Secunderabad – G Kishan Reddy
Mahabubnagar – D K Aruna
Nagarkurnool(SC) – Bangaru Shruthi
Nalgonda – Garlapati Jithender Kumar
Bhongir – P V Shansunder Rao
Warangal – Chinta Sambamurthy
Mahabubnagar – Jatothu Hussain Naik
Tripura
Tripura (West) – Rebati Tripura
Tripura (East) (ST) - Pratima Bhaumik
Uttarakhand
Tehri Garhwal – Tirath Singh Rawat
Almora(SC) – Ajay Tamta
Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar – Ajay Bhatt
Hardwar – Ramesh Pokhriyal (Nishank)
West Bengal
Coochbehar - Nishith Pramanik
Alipurduars (ST) – John Barla
Jalpaiguri (SC) - Dr Jayanta Ray
Raiganj – Debishree Chaudhary
Balurghat – Dr Sukanta Majumdar
Maldaha Uttar – Khagen Murmu
Maldaha Dakshin – Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury
Krshnanagar – Kalyan Chowbey
Barrackpur – Arjun singh
Dum Dum – Samik Bhattacharya
Barasat – Mrinal Kanthi Debnath
Jaynagar (SC) – Ashok Kandari
Marthurapur (SC) – Shyamaprasad Halder
Jadavpur – Prfessor Anupam Hazra
Kolkata Dakshin – Chandra Kumar Bose
Kolkata Uttar – Rahul Sinha
Serampore – Debajit Sarkar
Hooghly – Locket Chaterjee
Arambagh(SC) – Tapan roy
Tamluk – Siddharth Naskar
Ghatal – Bharati Ghosh
Jhargram (ST) – Dr Kunar Hembram
Medinipur – Dilip Ghosh
Bishnupur (SC) – Soumitra Kha
Bardhaman Purba (SC) – Paresh Chandra Das
Asansol – Babul Supriyo
Birbhum – Dudh Kumar Mondal
