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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
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6 min read Last Updated : Mar 22 2019 | 9:57 AM IST
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 |