Gearing up for the General Elections 2019, the Bhartiya Janta Party on Friday declared 11 more Candidates in addition to 327 Candidates released by the party in a run-up to the Lok Sabha Polls 2019. The Saffron party as a part of its 12th list named Candidates on 3 seats each for Rajasthan, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. While also named candidates on each seat of Jammu and Kashmir, and Maharashtra.
BJP releases 12th list of 11 candidates in Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra & Rajasthan for #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/6GNeE0K0Ab
— ANI (@ANI) March 29, 2019
The Central Election Committee of the saffron party has decided the following names for the upcoming mega battle of ballots:
Karnataka:
- Anna Saheb Jolle from Chikkodi
- Raja Amresh Nayak from Raichur ST
- Sanganna Karadi from Koppadi
Madhya Pradesh
- Dhal Singh Bisen from Balaghat
- Roadmal Nagar from Rajgarh
- Gajendra Patel from Khargone ST
Rajasthan
- Rahul Kaswan from Churu
- Balak Nath from Alwar
- Kanakmal Katara from Banswara ST
Maharashtra
- Ranjeet Singh Hindurao Naik Nimbalkar from Madha Seat
Jammu and Kashmir
- Jamyang Tsering Namgyal from Ladkah
With this list, the party has now declared a total of 336 Candidates in a run-up to the General Elections 2019
Bhartiya Janta Party earlier in its first list of 184 Candidates announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi contesting from Varanasi, BJP President Amit Shah from Gandhi Nagar. While party in its other lists declared BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra from Puri, Odisha, Smriti Irani from Amethi, Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, among others.
While major Opposition Congress has started rolling out the lists of Candidates. The party has so far released over 300 names for the mega battle of ballots.
The party has named its President Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli, Priya Dutt for Mumbai North Central Seat, Milind Deora from Mumbai South, Sushil Kumar Shinde from Solapur reserved seat, among others.
READ: Check out Full List of BJP Candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections
Election Commission had on March 10 declared schedule for General Elections 2019. Lok Sabha Polls are slated for April-May this year that would spread on Seven Phases starting from April 11 to May 19.
Counting of Votes and Results for the mega Battle of ballots will be announced on May 23 four days after the 7th phase of voting.
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