BJP names 72 more candidates for LS polls; Anurag Thakur, M L Khattar, Piyush Goyal among nominees
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The BJP on Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai.
BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand.
In Delhi, it has fielded two new candidates -- Harsh Malhotra from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi.
In Karnataka, Union minister Pralhad Joshi will fight from Dharwad while former chief minister B S Yediyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra will contest from Shimoga.
Tejasvi Surya, the BJP's youth wing chief, will seek re-election from Bengaluru South.
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal family replaces Pratap Simha as the BJP candidate in the Mysore seat. Earlier this month, the BJP had announced its first list of more than 190 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, due in April-May.
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- Anil Baluni
- Yogendra Chandolia
- East Delhi
- Piyush Goyal
- Trivendra Singh Rawat
- Manohar Lal Khattar
- Dharwad
- Pralhad Joshi
- Anurag Singh Thakur
- Karnataka
- Uttarakhand
- Nitin Gadkari
- Pratap Simha
- Harsh Malhotra
- Bengaluru South
- B Y Raghavendra
- B S Yediyurappa's
- Mysore
- Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar
- Lok Sabha
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