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BJP candidate list 2019: Bharatiya Janata Party candidate list for Lok Sabha elections 2019

List of BJP candidates for ensuing general election to the Lok Sabha 2019 of Odisha finalised by BJP CEC.

1. Shri Suresh Pujari – Bargarh
2. Shri Nitesh Ganga Deb – Sambalpur
3. Shri Basanta Kumar Panda – Kalahandi
4. Dr. Sambit Patra – Puri
5. Shri Jayaram Pangi – Koraput pic.twitter.com/gsiRDmRJNh

— BJP Odisha (@BJP4Odisha) March 22, 2019

The Central Election Committee of the @BJP4India decided the names of 99 BJP candidates for the ensuing General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha. pic.twitter.com/I5HCNtNZ8m

— BJP Odisha (@BJP4Odisha) March 21, 2019

https://www.facebook.com/BJP4Odisha/videos/426579314754419/

Election 2019, Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha Candidate List 2019: The Bharatiya Janata Party is seek second term in office under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. The party on Friday released its thirst list of candidates, fielding Sambit Patra from Puri parliamentary seat.
BJP is seeking second term in office under PM Narendra Modi’s leadership
The BJP is seeking re-election under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its president Amit Shah.
BJP releases third list of candidates for Lok Sabha election 2019: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has so far released three lists of 221 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls which will be held in seven phases between April 11 and May 19, 2019. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek re-election from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat, BJP president Amit Shah will fight from Gandhinagar constituency, replacing LK Advani. The Gandhinagar parliamentary seat has been BJP’s stronghold since 1989. The party has given a ticket to its spokesperson Sambit Patra from Puri Lok Sabha seat in Odisha.

https://twitter.com/PandaJay/status/1108781839676788738

The party has once again fielded Union Minister Smriti Irani against Congress president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi. During the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Irani had given a tough fight to Rahul. The margin between the winning the candidate (Rahul) and the first runner up (Irani) was just 1.08 lakh voters. In 2009, Rahul had won from here with a margin of nearly 3 lakh votes.

https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1109335916131147776

Here’s the first candidate list of BJP
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
Arunachal West Lok Sabha seat: Kiren Rijiju

Arunachal East Lok Sabha seat: Tapir Gao

ANDHRA PRADESH
Aruku (ST) Lok Sabha seat: K V VSatyanarayan Reddy
Srikakulam Lok Sabha seat: Perla Sambamurti

Vizianagaram Lok Sabha seat: P Sanyasi Raju

Anakapalli Lok Sabha seat: Dr. Gandi Venkata Satyanarayana

Kakinada Lok Sabha seat: YallaVenkata Ramamohana Rao (Dorababu)

Amalapuram (SC) Lok Sabha seat: AyyajiVema Manepalli

Rajahmundry Lok Sabha seat: Satya Gopinath dasparavasthu

Narsapuram Lok Sabha seat: Paidikonda Manikyalarao

Eluru Lok Sabha seat: Chinnam Ramkotaya

Machilipatnam Lok Sabha seat: Gudivaka Ramanjaneyulu

Vijayawada Lok Sabha seat: Dilip Kumar Kilaru

Guntur Lok Sabha seat: ValluruJayaprakash Narayana

Bapatla (SC) Lok Sabha seat: Dr. Challagali Kishore Kumar

Ongole Lok Sabha seat: Thogunta Srinivas

Nandyal Lok Sabha seat: Dr. AdinarayanaInti

Kurnool Lok Sabha seat: Dr. P V Parthasarthi

Anantapur Lok Sabha seat: HamsaDevineni

Hindupur Lok Sabha seat: Pogala Venkata Parthasarthi

Kadapa Lok Sabha seat: Singa Reddy Ramchandra Reddy

Nellore Lok Sabha seat: Suresh Reddy Sannapareddy

Tirupati (SC) Lok Sabha seat: Bommi Sri Hari Rao

Rajampet Lok Sabha seat: Pappireddi Maheswara Reddy

Chittoor (SC) Lok Sabha seat: Jayaram Duggani

ASSAM
Karimganj Lok Sabha seat: Kripanath Malla

Silchar Lok Sabha seat: Rajdeep Roy Bengali

Autonomous District Lok Sabha seat: Harensingh Bey

Gauhati Lok Sabha seat: Queen Ojha

Mangaldoi Lok Sabha seat: Dilip Saikia

Jorhat Lok Sabha seat: Tapan Gogai

Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat: Rameswar Teli

Lakhimpur Lok Sabha seat: Pradan Baruah

Tezpur Lok Sabha seat: Pallab Lochan Das

BIHAR
Paschim Champaran Lok Sabha seat: Sanjay Jaiswal

Purvi Champaran Lok Sabha seat: Radha Mohan Singh

Seohar Lok Sabha seat: Rama Devi

Madhubani Lok Sabha seat: Ashok Kumar Yadav

Araria Lok Sabha seat: Pradeep Singh

Darbhanga Lok Sabha seat: Gopal Thakur

Muzzafarpur Lok Sabha seat: Ajay Nishad

Maharajganj Lok Sabha seat: Janardan Singh Sigriwal

Saran Lok Sabha seat: Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Ujiyarpur Lok Sabha seat: Nityanand Rai

Begusarai Lok Sabha seat: Giriraj Singh

Patna Sahib Lok Sabha seat: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Patliputra Lok Sabha seat: Ram Kripal Yadav

Ara Lok Sabha seat: RK Singh

Buxar Lok Sabha seat: Ashwini Kumar Choubey

Sasaram Lok Sabha seat: Chhedi Paswan

Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat: Sushil Kumar Singh

CHHATTISGARH
Surguja Lok Sabha seat: Renuka Singh

Raigarh Lok Sabha seat: Gomtee Sai

Janjgir-Champa Lok Sabha seat: Guharam Ajgale

Bastar Lok Sabha seat: Baiduram Kashyap

Kanker Lok Sabha seat: Mohan Mandavi

UTTAR PRADESH
Varanasi Lok Sabha seat: Narendra Modi

Lucknow Lok Sabha seat: Rajnath Singh

Ghaziabad Lok Sabha seat: VK Singh

Mathura Lok Sabha seat: Hema Malini: Mathura

Unnao Lok Sabha seat: Sakshi Maharaj

Amethi Lok Sabha seat: Smriti Irani

Etah Lok Sabha seat: Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya)

Bareilly Lok Sabha seat: Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Baghpat Lok Sabha seat: Satyapal Singh

Meerut Lok Sabha seat: Rajendra Agrawal

Sambhal Lok Sabha seat: Parmeshwar Lal Saini

Saharanpur Lok Sabha seat: Raghav Lakhanpal

Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha seat: Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

Bijnor Lok Sabha seat: Kunwar Bharatendra Singh

Moradabad Lok Sabha seat: Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar

Amroha Lok Sabha seat: Kanwar Singh Tanwar

Gautam Buddha Nagar Lok Sabha seat: Mahesh Sharma

Aligarh Lok Sabha seat: Satish Kumar Gautam

Agra Lok Sabha seat: SP Singh Baghel

Fatehpur Sikri Lok Sabha seat: Raj Kumar Chaher

Badaun Lok Sabha seat: Sangh Mitra Maurya

Aonla Lok Sabha seat: Dharmendra Kumar

Shahjahanpur Lok Sabha seat: Arun Sagar

Kheri Lok Sabha seat: Ajay Kumar Mishra

Sitapur Lok Sabha seat: Rajesh Verma

Hardoi Lok Sabha seat: Jai Prakash Rawat

Misrikh Lok Sabha seat: Ashok Rawat

Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha seat: Kaushal Kishore

GUJARAT
Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat: Amit Shah

ODISHA
Kendrapara Lok Sabha seat: Baijayant Jay Panda

Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha seat: Aparajita Sarangi

Balasore Lok Sabha seat: Pratap Sarangi

Balangir Lok Sabha seat: Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo

Bargarh Lok Sabha seat: Shri Suresh Pujari

Sambalpur Lok Sabha seat: Shri Nitesh Ganga Deb

Kalahandi Lok Sabha seat: Shri Basanta Kumar Panda

Puri Lok Sabha seat: Dr. Sambit Patra

Koraput (ST) Lok Sabha seat: Shri Jayaram Pangi

KARNATAKA
North Kannada Lok Sabha seat: Anantkumar Hegde

Bangalore North Lok Sabha seat: Sadanand Gowda

Shimoga Lok Sabha seat: BY Raghavendra

Mysore Lok Sabha seat: Prathap Sinha

Belgaum Lok Sabha seat: Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi

Bagalkot Lok Sabha seat: Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar

Bijapur Lok Sabha seat: Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi

Gulbarga Lok Sabha seat: Umesh Jadhav

Bidar Lok Sabha seat: Bhagwanth Khuba

Bellary Lok Sabha seat: Devendrappa

Haveri Lok Sabha seat: Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi

Dharwad Lok Sabha seat: Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi

Davanagere Lok Sabha seat: Gowdar M Siddeshwara

Udupi Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat: Shobha Karandlaje

Hassan Lok Sabha seat: A Manju

Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha seat: Nalin Kumar Kateel

Chitradurga Lok Sabha seat: A Narayana Swamy

Tumkur Lok Sabha seat: G S Basavaraju

Mysore Lok Sabha seat: Prathap Simha

Chamrajanagar Lok Sabha seat: Srinivasa Prasad

Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat: PC Mohan

Chikkballapur Lok Sabha seat: BN Bachchegowda

KERALA
Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat: Kummanam Rajasekharan

Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat: KJ Alphons

WEST BENGAL
Asanasol Lok Sabha seat: Babul Supriyo

Kolkata North Lok Sabha seat: Rahul Sinha

Kolkata South Lok Sabha seat: Chandra Kumar Bose

Jadavpur Lok Sabha seat: Anupam Hazra

Medinipur Lok Sabha seat: Dilip Ghosh

Arambag Lok Sabha seat: Tapan Roy

Basirhat Lok Sabha seat: Sayantan Basu

Jalpaiguri Lok Sabha seat: Jayanta Ray

Balurghat Lok Sabha seat: Sukanta Majumdar

Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat: Nisith Pramanik

MAHARASHTRA
Nagpur Lok Sabha seat: Nitin Gadkari

Dhule Lok Sabha seat: Subhash Bhamre

Chandrapur Lok Sabha seat: Hansraj Ahir

Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha seat: Poonam Mahajan

Nandurbar Lok Sabha seat: Heena Vijaykumar Gavit

Raver Lok Sabha seat: Raksha Nikhil Khadse

Akola Lok Sabha seat: Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre

Wardha Lok Sabha seat: Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas

Gadchiroli-Chimur Lok Sabha seat: Ashok Mahadeorao Nete

Jalna Lok Sabha seat: Raosaheb Patil Danve

Bhiwandi Lok Sabha seat: Kapil Moreshwar Patil

Mumbai-North Lok Sabha seat: Gopal Chinayya Shetty

Ahmednagar Lok Sabha seat: Sujay Vikhe

Beed Lok Sabha seat: Pritam Gopinath Munde

Latur Lok Sabha seat: Sudhakar Bhalerao Shrungare

Sangli Lok Sabha seat: Sanjay(Kaka) Ramchandra Patil

Jalgaon Lok Sabha seat: Mrs. Smita Uday Wagh

Nanded Lok Sabha seat: Shri Pratap Patil Chikkalikar

Dindori (ST) Lok Sabha seat: Dr. Bharati Pawar

Pune Lok Sabha seat: Shri Girish Bapat

Baramati Lok Sabha seat: Mrs. Kanchan Rahul Kul

Solapur (SC) Lok Sabha seat: Dr. Jaysidhesvar Swami

Meghalaya
Shillong (ST) Lok Sabha seat: Shri Sanbor Shullai

Daman and Diu
Daman and Diu Lok Sabha seat: Shri Lalubhai Patel

JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Jammu Lok Sabha seat: Jugal Kishore

Udhampur Lok Sabha seat: Jitendra Singh

Anantnag Lok Sabha seat: Sofi Yousuf

Srinagar Lok Sabha seat: Khalid Jehangir

UTTARAKHAND
Haridwar Lok Sabha seat: Ramesh Pokhriyal

Garhwal Lok Sabha seat: Tirath Singh Rawat

Nainital Lok Sabha seat: Ajay Bhatt

RAJASTHAN
Jaipur Rural Lok Sabha seat: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Earlier, the party announced its list of 123 candidates for the Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and 54 candidates (out of 60) for the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections. The two states will go to polls simultaneously with the general elections.

The BJP is facing an uphill task amid expectations of a repeat of its 2014 performance. The party is contesting elections under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi and seeking second term in office by highlighting the works done by the government in last five years.

In 2014, the BJP had secured absolute majority on its won, winning 283 seats. The NDA had won 336 seats in 543 members Lok Sabha.

The elections to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha will begin from April 11 and culminate on May 19. Results will be declared on May 23. The tenure of 16th Lok Sabha ends on June 3.