Breaking News : PM Modi To Contest From Varanasi, Amit Shah Gandhinagar, BJP First List Out
New Delhi, March 21, 2019: The BJP on Thursday released the first list of 184 candidates for Lok Sabha polls 2019 .
PM Narendra Modi to contest from Varanasi again whereas the BJP national president Amit Shah is the party candidate from Gandhinagar constituency from Gujarat. Notably, former BJP president LK Advani is the sitting MP from this constituency.
Union Minister Samriti Irani will again contest from Amethi, the Congress stronghold in UP. She had lost to Congress president Rahul Gandhi from this seat in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Other BJP bigwigs including Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Minister and former BJP national president Nitin Gadkari have been named as candidates from Lucknow in UP and Nagpur in Maharashtra respectively.
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