LS polls candidate list: Amit Shah makes debut, PM to contest from Varanasi

All incumbent MPs from Karnataka have been retained by BJP, while Amit Shah has replaced L K Advani. Aparna Yadav has not been named by Samajwadi Party yet

With the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 looming ahead,  parties have started announcing their list of candidates. The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday announced a list of 184 candidates for 20 states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be contesting from Varanasi. 

In a surprise move, BJP chief Amit Shah will be contesting from Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Shah is making is Lok Sabha debut with this elections. It is notable that Gandhinagar is the seat of veteran BJP politician L K Advani. Before this, Advani had vacated the Gandhinagar seat just once for Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996. 

The western UP candidates of BJP from 2014 elections have been retained. Raj Nath Singh, Hema Malini, V K Singh, Smriti Irani, Mahesh Sharma, Satya Pal Singh have been given tickets. Nitin Gadkari will be contesting from Nagpur. Kiren Rijiju will be contesting from Arunachal East, while Rajyawardhan Singh Rathore will be contesting from Jaipur Rural. 

It is interesting to note that BJP has not dropped a single winning candidate from Karnataka. Many BJP leaders who are above the age of 75, have voluntarily declined to contest the elections. This includes Kalraj Mishra. 

For the state Andhra Pradesh, the Congress has fielded Ramana Kumari Pedada from Vishakhapatnam, Narahrasetti Narasimha Rao from Vijayawada, and J Lakshmi Narasimha Yadav from Nandyal. With this, the Congress has named its candidates for all the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. The total number of Lok Sabha candidates declared by the Congress so far stands at 149.

K Chandrashekar Rao-led Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Thursday announced its candidates for all the 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana. The party has again fielded KCR's daughter K Kavitha from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha seat. Besides her, Vemireddy Narasimha Reddy will contest from Nalgonda, Pasunuri Dayaker from Warangal, G Nagesh from Adilabad, Talasani Saikiran Yadav from Secunderabad, Manne Srinivas Reddy from Mahabubnagar and Puste Srikanth from Hyderabad, among others.

Samajwadi Party also announced its candidates from Uttar Pradesh. Party Chairman Mulayam Singh Yadav will contest from his traditional seat of Mainpuri. Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav, will contest from Kannuj. Surprisingly, Aparna Yadav has not been given ticket till now. Dharmendra and Akshay Yadav will also be contesting. 

State	Constituency	Congress candidate
Telangana	Adilabad (ST)	Ramesh Rathod
Gujarat	Ahmedabad West (SC)	Raju Parmar
Uttar Pradesh	Akbarpur	Rajaram Pal
Kerala	Alathur (SC)	Ms Remya Haridas
Uttar Pradesh	Aligarh	Ch Brijender Singh
West Bengal	Alipurduars (ST)	Mohan Lal Basumata
Andhra Pradesh	Amalapuram (SC)	Janga Gowtham
Uttar Pradesh	Amethi	Rahul Gandhi
Andhra Pradesh	Anakapalli	Sreeram Murthy
Gujarat	Anand	Bharatsinh M Solanki
Andhra Pradesh	Anantapur	Kuncham Rajeev Reddy
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Andaman And Nicobar Islands	Kuldeep Rai Sharma
Andhra Pradesh	Aruku (ST)	Ms Sruthi V Devi
Arunachal Pradesh	Arunachal East	James Lowangcha Wanglet
Arunachal Pradesh	Arunachal West	Nabam Tuki
Assam	Autonomous District (ST)	Biren Singh Engti
Uttar Pradesh	Badaun	Saleem Iqbal Shervani
West Bengal	Baharampur	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Uttar Pradesh	Bahraich (SC)	Smr Savitri Phule
West Bengal	Balurghat	Sadik Sarkar
Uttar Pradesh	Bansgaon (SC)	Kush Saurabh
Andhra Pradesh	Bapatla (SC)	Jesudasu Seelam
Uttar Pradesh	Bara Banki (SC)	Tanuj Punia
Orissa	Bargarh	Pradeep Kumar Devta
Chhattisgarh	Bastar (ST)	Deepak Baij
Orissa	Berhampur	V Chandrasekhar Naidu
Telangana	Bhongir	Komatireddy Vekat Reddy
Uttar Pradesh	Bijnor	Ms Indira Bhatti
Uttar Pradesh	Bulandshahr (SC)	Bansi Lal Pahadia
Kerala	Chalakudy	Benny Bahanan
Telangana	Chelvella	Konda Vishweshwar Reddy
Gujarat	Chhota Udaipur (ST)	Ranjit Mohansinh Rathwa
Andhra Pradesh	Chittoor (SC)	Dr Cheemala Rangappa
West Bengal	Cooch Behar (SC)	Ms Priya Roy Chowdhury
West Bengal	Darjeeling	Shankar Malakar
Uttar Pradesh	Dhaurahra	Jitin Prasad
Assam	Dibrugarh	Paban Singh Ghatowar
Andhra Pradesh	Eluru	Jetti Gurunadha Rao
Kerala	Ernakulam	Hibi Eden
Uttar Pradesh	Faizabad	Nirmal Khatri
Uttar Pradesh	Farrukhabad	Salman Khursheed
Uttar Pradesh	Fatehpur	Rakesh Sachan
Maharashtra	Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST)	Dr Namdev Dalluji Usendi
Uttar Pradesh	Gautam Buddh Nagar	Dr Arvind Singh Chauhan
Uttar Pradesh	Ghaziabad	Smt Dolly Sharma
Uttar Pradesh	Ghosi	Bal Krishna Chauhan
Andhra Pradesh	Guntur	Shaik Mastan Vali
Himachal Pradesh	Hamirpur	Pritam Lodhi
Uttar Pradesh	Hamirpur	Pritam Lodhi
Andhra Pradesh	Hindupur	KT Sreedhar
Telangana	Hyderabad	Firoz Khan
Kerala	Idukki	Dean Kuriakose
Uttar Pradesh	Jalaun (SC)	Brij Lal Khabri
West Bengal	Jalpaiguri (SC)	Manu Kumar Darnal
West Bengal	Jangipur	Abhijit Mukherjee
Chhattisgarh	Janjgir-Champa (SC)	Ravi Bhardwaj
Assam	Jorhat	Sushanta Borgohain
Andhra Pradesh	Kadapa	Gundlakunta Sreeramulu
Uttar Pradesh	Kairana	Harender Malik
Andhra Pradesh	Kakinada	M M Pallam Raju
Orissa	Kalahandi	Bhakta Charan Das
Assam	Kaliabor	Gaurav Gogoi
Orissa	Kandhamal	Manoj Kumar Acharya
Chhattisgarh	Kanker (ST)	Birjesh Thakur
Kerala	Kannur	K Sudhakaran
Uttar Pradesh	Kanpur	Sriprakash Jaiswal
Assam	Karimganj (SC)	Swarup Das
Telangana	Karimnagar	Ponnam Prabhakar
Kerala	Kasaragod	Rajmohan Unnithan
Uttar Pradesh	Kheri	Zafar Ali Naqvi
Kerala	Kozhikode	M K Raghvan
Andhra Pradesh	Kurnool	Ahmed Ali Khan
Uttar Pradesh	Kushi Nagar	R P N Singh
Assam	Lakhimpur	Anil Borghain
Lakshadweep	Lakshadweep (ST)	M Hamdullah Sayeed
Uttar Pradesh	Lalganj (SC)	Pankaj Mohan Sonkar
Andhra Pradesh	Machilipatnam	Gollu Krishna
Telangana	Mahabubabad (ST)	Porika Balram Naik
Telangana	Mahbubnagar	Dr Ch Vamshichand Reddy
West Bengal	Maldaha Dakshin	Abu Haseem Khan Chowdhury
West Bengal	Maldaha Uttar	Isha Khan Chowdhury
Telangana	Malkajgiri	A Revanth Reddy
Assam	Mangaldoi	Bhubaneshwar Kalita
Kerala	Mavelikara (SC)	Kodikunnil Suresh
Telangana	Medak	Gali Anil Kumar
Uttar Pradesh	Meerut	Harendra Agarwal
Uttar Pradesh	Mirzapur	Lalitesh Pati Tripathi
Uttar Pradesh	Misrikh (SC)	Ms Manjari Rahi
Uttar Pradesh	Mohanlalganj (SC)	Ramashankar Bhargava
Uttar Pradesh	Moradabad	Raj Babbar
Maharashtra	Mumbai North Central	Smt Priya Dutt
Maharashtra	Mumbai South	Milind Murli Deora
West Bengal	Murshidabad	Abu Hena
Orissa	Nabarangpur (ST)	Pradeep Manjhi
Nagaland	Nagaland (ST)	K L Chishi
Telangana	Nagarkurnool (SC)	Dr Mallu Ravi
Uttar Pradesh	Nagina (SC)	Smt Omwati Devi Jatav
Maharashtra	Nagpur	Nana Patole
Telangana	Nalgonda	N Uttam Kumar Reddy
Andhra Pradesh	Narasaraopet	Pakkala Suribabu
Andhra Pradesh	Narsapuram	Kanumuri Bapiraju
Andhra Pradesh	Nellore	Chevuru Devakumar Reddy
Telangana	Nizamabad	Madhu Yashik Goud
Assam	Nowgong	Pradyut Borgohain
Andhra Pradesh	Ongole	Dr SDJM Prasad
Kerala	Palakkad	V K Sreekantan
Kerala	Pathanamthitta	Anto Antony
Telangana	Peddapalli (SC)	A Chandra Sekhar
Uttar Pradesh	Pratapgarh	Smt Ratan Singh
Uttar Pradesh	Rae Bareli	Smt Sonia Gandhi
West Bengal	Raiganj	Smt Deepa Dasmunshi
Chhattisgarh	Raigarh (ST)	Laljeet Singh Rathia
Andhra Pradesh	Rajahmundry	Nalluri Vijaya Srinivasa Rao
Andhra Pradesh	Rajampet	Mohd Sahjahan Basha
Uttar Pradesh	Robertsganj (SC)	Bhagwato Prasad Choudhary
Uttar Pradesh	Saharanpur	Imran Masood
Uttar Pradesh	Sant Kabir Nagar	Parvez Khan
Chhattisgarh	Surguja (ST)	Khel Sai Singh
Telangana	Secundrabad	M Anjan Kumar Yadav
Meghalaya	Shillong (ST)	Vincent H Pala
Sikkim	Sikkim	Bharat Basnett
Assam	Silchar	Smt Sushmita Dev
Uttar Pradesh	Sitapur	Smr Kaisar Jahan
Maharashtra	Solapur (SC)	Sushil Kumar S Shinde
Andhra Pradesh	Srikakulam	Dola Janganmohan Rao
Uttar Pradesh	Sultanpur	Dr Sanjay Singh
Orissa	Sundargarh (ST)	George Tirkey
Assam	Tezpur	MGVK Bhanu
Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Shashi Tharoor
Kerala	Thrissur	T N Prathapan
Andhra Pradesh	Tirupati (SC)	Chinta Mohan
Meghalaya	Tura (ST)	Dr Mukul M Sangma
Uttar Pradesh	Unnao	Smt Annu Tandon
Gujarat	Vadodara	Prashant Patel
Andhra Pradesh	Vizianagaram	Yedla Adiraju
Telangana	Warangal (SC)	Dommati Sambaiah
Telangana	Zahirabad	K Madan Mohan Rao