The fourth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha was announced on Friday by the Bharatiya Janata Party. For 14 seats in Tamil Nadu, the names of the candidates have been released. One Puducherry seat has been opened up for State Home Minister Namassivayam to run for.
Nine Tamil Nadu candidates' names were revealed on the third list prior to this. Chennai South has issued the ticket to Tamilisai Sundararajan, the former governor of Telangana. Union Minister L Murugan is from the Nilgiris, and state BJP president K. Annamalai is from Coimbatore.
Of Tamil Nadu's 39 Lok Sabha seats, the BJP has awarded Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) ten of them. In this sense, the six state seats remain unfilled by announced candidates.
In addition, Mohesh Chai was announced by the BJP on Thursday as their contender for the Tezu seat in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections.
However, BJP state president Manmohan Samal announced that the party would only run for 21 assembly seats in Odisha and 147 Lok Sabha seats there.
The initial BJP list contained the names of 195 candidates.
The initial list was made public by the BJP on March 2. In this, 195 candidates were declared. The initial list included the names of Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On March 13, the BJP released their second list, which included 72 names, at the same time. Tickets for this have been awarded to Anurag Thakur from Hamirpur, Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North, and Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur.
With 72 individuals on its second list, the BJP has announced that Gadkari will run from Nagpur and Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North.
In preparation for the Lok Sabha elections on March 13, the BJP unveiled its second list in the evening. It has seventy-two names in it. Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North, Anurag Thakur from Hamirpur, and Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur have all been handed tickets. Manohar Lal Khattar, who resigned as Haryana's chief minister one day earlier, will run for office from Karnal.
Nine candidates from Tamil Nadu are on the BJP's third list, which includes tickets for State President Annamalai and Union Minister Murugan.
On Thursday, the BJP released its third list (March 21). Nine Tamil Nadu contestants have been announced for this. Tamilisai Sundararajan, the Telangana governor, received the ticket from Chennai South in this. Coimbatore-born State BJP head K. Annamalai and Nilgiris-born Union Minister L. Murugan have been fielded.
39 names on Congress's initial list, including 4 women: Rahul will run from Wayanad among a maximum of 16 contestants from Kerala.
On March 8, the Congress unveiled the initial roster of contenders for the Lok Sabha elections. 39 candidates were declared by KC Venugopal, general secretary of the party. This list indicates that Rahul Gandhi will run for office from Wayanad. He continues to be an MP there. In addition to Rahul, the list also includes the names of Bhupesh Baghel and Shashi Tharoor. Fifteen members of the general category and twenty-four members of the SC-ST, OBC, and minority categories make up the initial list of candidates for Congress. Twelve of the contenders are younger than fifty.
Cricket players Yusuf Pathan, Shatrughan Sinha, and Kirti Azad are among the 42 Lok Sabha candidates announced by TMC; Nusrat Jahan-Mimi Chakraborty's ticket was canceled.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) declared their candidates on Sunday for West Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha seats. Cricket player Yusuf Pathan has been selected by the party to challenge Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Choudhary in the Baharampur seat. In addition, the names of former cricket player Kirti Azad from Durgapur and actor Shatrughan Sinha from Asansol are mentioned. Actresses Mimi Chakraborty from Jadavpur and Nusrat Jahan from the Basirhat Lok Sabha seat have had their tickets canceled by TMC.
