PM Modi to contest from Varanasi again, 34 ministers in BJP’s first list: Check full list here
PM Modi to contest from Varanasi again, 34 ministers in BJP's first list: Check full list here
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, the BJP announced, while declaring its first list of 195 candidates. This marks Modi’s third time contesting from Varanasi. Previously, he won against Arvind Kejriwal in 2014 and Shalini Yadav in 2019.
Out of the 195 candidates listed, there are 28 women, 27 from the SC category, 18 from the ST category, and 57 from the OBC category. The list includes prominent figures like Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who will contest from Gandhinagar, and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who will run from Porbandar.
Other notable candidates include Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal West, MP Tapir Gao from Arunachal East, MP Bishnu Pada Ray from Andaman and Nicobar, and Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal from Assam’s Dibrugarh. Additionally, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will contest from Vidisha, and Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will run from Guna.
Here’s the BJP’s full list of candidates:
| Candidate name | Constituency Name | State/ UT |
| Narendra Modi | Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh |
| Bishnu Pada Ray | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| Kiren Rijiju | Arunachal Pradesh West | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Tapir Gao | Arunachal Pradesh East | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Kripanath Mallah | Karimganj | Assam |
| Parimal Suklabaidya | Silchar | Assam |
| Amar Sing Tisso | Autonomous District | Assam |
| Bijuli Kalita Medhi | Gauhati | Assam |
| Dilip Saikia | Mangaldoi | Assam |
| Ranjit Dutta | Tezpur | Assam |
| Suresh Bora | Nowgong | Assam |
| Kamakhaya Prasad Tasa | Kaliabor | Assam |
| Topon Kumar Gogai | Jorhat | Assam |
| Sarbananda Sonowal | Dibrugarh | Assam |
| Pradhan Baruah | Lakhimpur | Assam |
| Chintamani Maharaj | Sarguja | Chhattisgarh |
| Manoj Tiwari | North East Delhi | Delhi |
| Bansuri Swaraj | New Delhi | Delhi |
| Kamaljeet Sehrawat | West Delhi | Delhi |
| Ramvir Singh Bidhuri | South Delhi | Delhi |
| Amit Shah | Gandhinagar | Gujarat |
| Parshottam Rupala | Rajkot | Gujarat |
| Mansukh Mandaviya | Porbandar | Gujarat |
| Shripad Naik | North Goa | Goa |
| Dr Jitendra Singh | Udhampur | Jammu and Kashmir |
| Jugal Kishore Sharma | Jammu | Jammu and Kashmir |
| Krishna Kumar | Palakkad | Kerala |
| Suresh Gopi | Thrissur | Kerala |
| Rajeev Chandrasekhar | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala |
| Jyotiraditya Scindia | Guna | Madhya Pradesh |
| Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Vidisha | Madhya Pradesh |
| Gajendra Patel | Khargone | Madhya Pradesh |
| Faggan Singh Kulaste | Mandla | Madhya Pradesh |
| Alok Sharma | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal | Bikaner | Rajasthan |
| Bhupendra Yadav | Alwar | Rajasthan |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Jodhpur | Rajasthan |
| Mahendra Malviya | Baswara | Rajasthan |
| Manna Lal Rawat | Udaipur | Rajasthan |
| C P Joshi | Chittorgarh | Rajasthan |
| Om Birla | Kota | Rajasthan |
| Bandi Sanjay Kumar | Karimnagar | Telangana |
| Arvind Dharmapuri | Nizamabad | Telangana |
| G Kishan Reddy | Secunderabad | Telangana |
| Ajay Tamta | Almora | Uttarakhand |
| Dr Mahesh Sharma | Gautam Buddha Nagar | Uttar Pradesh |
| Dr Bhola Singh | Bulandshahr | Uttar Pradesh |
| Smriti Irani | Amethi | Uttar Pradesh |
| Hema Malini | Mathura | Uttar Pradesh |
| Satyapal Singh Baghel | Agra | Uttar Pradesh |
| Raj Kumar Chahar | Fatehpur Sikri | Uttar Pradesh |
| Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya) | Etah | Uttar Pradesh |
| Sakshi Maharaj | Unnao | Uttar Pradesh |
| Rajnath Singh | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh |
| Nisith Pramanik | Cooch Behar | West Bengal |
| Dr Anirban Ganguly | Jadavpur | West Bengal |
| Dr Ratim Chakraborty | Howrah | West Bengal |
| Locket Chatterjee | Hooghly | West Bengal |
