List of BJP candidates for Lok Sabha: Varun Gandhi will be replaced in Pilibhit by UP minister Jitin Prasada, while Maneka Gandhi will run from Sultanpur.
List of BJP candidates for the Lok Sabha: On Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party presented 111 additional candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Maneka Gandhi, a former union minister, will continue to run from Sultanpur, while Jitin Prasada, a minister from Uttar Pradesh, has taken Varun Gandhi’s position in the Pilibhit constituency.
Sanjay Gandhi’s son Varun has defeated Pilibhit for the first time in 2009. Previously, Maneka Gandhi, his mother, held the position. However, in 2014, he was moved to Sultanpur, where Maneka Gandhi was fielded.
After being moved to Pilibhit once more in 2019, Varun Gandhi was able to win this seat and return for a third term in the Lok Sabha.
Gandhi’s criticism of his own administration over the protests by farmers made headlines.
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Currently, the ruling party has confirmed 398 candidates out of the 543 members of the House for the Lok Sabha elections, with the exception of four contentious withdrawals.
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, who is well-known for her outspoken support of the Bharatiya Janata Party, will run in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, while veteran actor Arun Govil, who is best known for playing Lord Ram in the film “Ramayan,” will run in Meerut.
Following her departure from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Sita Soren, the sister-in-law of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, has joined the BJP as a candidate from Dumka.
The candidate from Belgaum is Jagadish Shettar, the former chief minister of Karnataka who briefly defected to the Congress and then rejoined the BJP.
Dilip Ghosh, who replaces S S Ahluwalia, transfers from Medinipur to Bardhaman–Durgapur, while Abhijit Gangopadhyay, a former judge of the Calcutta High Court, will speak for the BJP in Tamluk, West Bengal.
Thirteen candidates from Rajasthan, four from Haryana, four from Karnataka, four from Kerala, eighteen from Odisha, and three from Maharashtra and Jharkhand are among the states from which the BJP has also announced candidates
