BJP names 111 more candidates for LS polls; Kangana Ranaut, Sita Soren in fifth list

Public Lokpal
March 24, 2024

New Delhi : The BJP on Sunday named 111 more candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, dropping Union ministers Ashwini Kumar Choubey and V K Singh, besides MP Varun Gandhi, while fielding actors Kangana Ranaut and Arun Govil.

Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan will contest from Sambalpur and the party's spokesperson Sambit Patra will try his luck from Puri once again after losing out in a close contest in 2019.

The party fielded Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur, while Uttar Pradesh minister Jitin Prasada has replaced Varun Gandhi in Pilibhit.

Sita Soren will fight from Dumka (Jharkhand).

The party has dropped ex-Union minister Anant Kumar Hegde from Uttara Kannada constituency.

List is here–

Nityanand Rai to contest from Ujiarpur.

Giriraj Singh from Begusarai.

Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib.

Kangana Ranaut from Mandi.

Naveen Jindal from Kurukshetra.

Sita Soren from Dumka.

Jagadish Shettar from Belgaum.

K Sudhakaran from Chikkaballapur

Dharmendra Pradhan from Sambalpur.

Pratap Sarangi from Balasore.

Sambit Patra from Puri.

Aparijita Sarangi from Bhubaneswar.

Arun Govil from Meerut.

Jitin Prasada from Pilibhit.

Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur.

Raju Bista from Darjeeling.

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay from Tamluk.

Dilip Ghosh from Bardhaman-Durgapur

Arjun Singh from Barrackpore.

Agnimitra Paul from Medinipur.

Baijayant Jay Panda to contest from Kendrapara

Dharmendra Pradhan to contest from Sambalpur

PTI/ANI