Pragya Singh Thakur replaced by Alok Sharma from Bhopal, Meenakashi Lekhi replaced by Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi. Ramesh Bidhuri replaced by Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from South Delhi.
Dr Harsh Vardhan replaced by Praveen Khandelwal from Delhi Chandni Chowk, Parvesh Verma replaced by Kamaljeet Sehrawat from West Delhi.
Ramakant Bhargava replaced by Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha, Krishna Pal Singh Yadav replaced by Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna
In a major move, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be BJP candidate from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. He is likely to take on Shashi Tharoor of Congress
Manoj Tigga will be BJP candidate from Alipurduars (ST) in West Bengal.
He replaces sitting MP and Union MoS for Minority Affairs John Barla.
In Tripura, Union Minister Pratima Bhowmick has been replaced from Tripura West by former CM Biplab Kumar Deb.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) will set up special polling stations in relief camps to enable voters displaced by the ethnic violence in Manipur to cast their votes in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, officials said on Saturday.
(In a major move, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be BJP candidate from Thiruvananthapuram)
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is to try his luck again from Kota.
BJP fields Paralympian Devendra Jhajharia from Rajasthan, denies ticket to 5 sitting MPs
It is always tough to improve upon your onetime 'best' performance. That is exactly what BJP is trying to achieve.
Announcing the first list of 195 candidates including 51 in Uttar Pradesh, BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde - “Not just the BJP, even the people in this country want 'fir ek baar Modi Sarkar"
BJP nominates LoP, West Bengak, Suvendu Adhikari's 's brother Soumendu Adhikari from Kanthi seat held by their father and former Union Minister Sishir Adhikari.
The BJP scored 100 per cent/clean sweep in Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat in 2019 and had lost just one seat in Madhya Pradesh, two in Chhattisgarh and its alliance lost just one in Bihar in the 2019 elections.
The party is heading towards the elections, expected to be announced soon, with an unprecedented confidence after PM Narendra Modi has set a target of 370 seats for the party on its own and 400 plus for its NDA coalition.
The party has already stitched fresh alliances with smaller parties as well as regional outfits like Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka, got back its former partner Janata Dal (United) in Bihar and has been in talks with parties like TDP- JanaSena in Telangana.
Sources also said that with a high target for the Lok Sabha elections, the party had to keep aside some of its plans to prune the candidates list and “winnability” has become the priority.
With the party expected to win most of the states in the Hindi heartlands and its traditional bastions, the BJP is expected to focus on the eastern and southern states to win more seats and increase the vote share and also seats.
There's lot of micro planning involved. In Madhya Pradesh, the party leadership has done good balancing by dropping Sadhvi Pragra from Bhopal while accommodating two senior leaders Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha and Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Sadhvi Pragya Thakur dropped from Bhopal. Now Alok Sharma to contest from Bhopal as BJP candidate.
In Uttar Pradesh, veteran Rajnath Singh has been retained from Lucknow and a turncoat Ritesh Pandey from BSP has been fielded from Ambedkar Nagar.
In Delhi, Dr Harsh Vardhan dropped from Chandni Chowk,
Ramesh Bidhuri, BJP MP from South Delhi, and Meenakshi Lekhi, MP from New Delhi, were dropped.
In the party's first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election, Ms Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of Late Sushma Swaraj, was named as the party candidate from New Delhi. She will take on AAP's Somnath Bharti.
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