New Delhi: The BJP has released its second list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls. The list of 72 names includes senior leaders Nitin Gadkari, ML Khattar and Piyush Goyal. The fresh face is in the race to Lok Sabha is Manohar Lal Khattar, who was pulled out of the Haryana Chief Minister’s post yesterday.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari retains his Nagpur seat after there was a little uncertainly as his name did not feature in the first list of the candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
In Karnataka, the party is fielding around 10 new faces.
Sitting MP Shobha Karandlaje on Udupi-Chikkamagaluru seat from Coastal Karnataka, has been replaced by Kota Srinivas Poojary. Karandlaje will now contest from Bengaluru North constituency. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of erstwhile Mysore royal family replaced Pratap Simha in Mysore seat.
Similarly on the Dakshina Kannada seat, the saffron party snubbed Nalin Kumar Kateel and has given ticket to Capt. Brijesh Chowta on the seat.
Haveri, where senior BJP leader Eshwarappa was anticipating seat for his son was allotted to former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai.
The remarkable mentions in the 2nd list are Ashok Tanwar (Sirsa), Manohar Lal Khattar (Karnal), Chaudhary Dharambir Singh (Bhiwani-Mahendragarh), Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav (Gurgaon), Anurag Singh Thakur (Hamirpur), BY Raghavendra (Shimoga), Basavaraj Bommai (Haveri) Shobha Karandlaje (Bangalore North), Tejasvi Surya (Bangalore South), Bharati Pravin Pawar (Dindori), Pankaja Munde (Beed), DK Aruna (Mahbubnagar), Trivendra Singh Rawat (Hardwar), Anil Baluni (Garhwal) Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North).
