Lok Sabha Polls: BJP Releases Second List; Gadkari to Contest From Nagpur, Khattar From Karnal
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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party unveiled its second list of 72 candidates spanning 11 states for the Lok Sabha elections.
Several big names like Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Anurag Thakur, and former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar are among those listed.
Khattar, who resigned as the chief minister of Haryana on Tuesday (March 12), will contest from Karnal constituency.
Union minister Piyush Goyal will contest from Mumbai North and Anurag Thakur from Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur.
Nitin Gadkari has chosen to contest from Nagpur, and former Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai will be contesting from Haveri.
This announcement follows the release of BJP's first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming polls last week.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to run for the Varanasi seat in Uttar Pradesh, while home minister Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
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BJP second list 2024 by The Wire on Scribd
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