The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has unveiled its latest list of candidates on March 24 for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, marking the release of its fifth list thus far.In this latest release, the BJP has revealed the names of candidates contesting for Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana, West Bengal, and Andhra Pradesh. The comprehensive list reflects the party’s strategic approach to fielding candidates across regions and constituencies, aiming to secure victory in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
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Polling for Lok Sabha elections will be conducted in seven phases, from April 19 to June 1. The counting of votes will be taken up on June 4.Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut has been fielded from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, a stronghold of Congress.
The party has also fielded veteran actor Arun Govil, who played the character of Lord Ram in Ramanand Sagar’s ‘Ramayan’ from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut.
Former Congress MP Naveen Jindal who joined the BJP today will contest from Haryana’s Kurukshetra on BJP ticket.Industrialist Naveen Jindal represented the Kurukshetra constituency in the Lok Sabha for two terms (2004-2014). However, he lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Raj Kumar Saini in the 2014 national elections and was not fielded by the Congress in 2019.
