CURATED BY – CHANDAN KUMAR CHAUBEY | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Patna, This time BJP's preparations are going on for the Lok Sabha elections with a slogan of 400 crosses. BJP has released the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. It includes names of 195 candidates. PM Modi will contest elections from Varanasi. Two former Chief Ministers have also been given tickets. Among 195 candidates, 28 women have also been given tickets. There are 27 SC, 18 ST and 57 OBC candidates in the list. The names of 34 Union Ministers are also included in the list.
BJP's first list has been announced in a press conference held at BJP headquarters in New Delhi. It includes names of 195 candidates. In the list released by BJP, 51 are from UP, 24 from Madhya Pradesh, 20 from West Bengal, 15 from Gujarat, 11 from Jharkhand, 11 from Chhattisgarh, 15 from Rajasthan, 12 from Kerala, 11 from Assam, 9 from Telangana. , 5 seats of Delhi, 3 of Uttarakhand, 2 of Jammu and Kashmir, 2 of Arunachal, 1 of Goa, 1 of Tripura, 1 of Andaman, 1 seat of Daman and Diu are included. Whereas, no candidate has been announced for any seat in Haryana.

PM Modi will contest elections from Varanasi in UP. Home Minister Amit Shah will contest elections from Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will contest elections from Lucknow. Whereas Jitendra Singh will contest elections from Udhampur. Hema Malini will contest from Mathura, Smriti Irani from Amethi. Whereas Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan will contest elections from Muzaffarnagar. While Nishith Pramanik will contest from Cooch Behar seat of West Bengal. Former Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan has been given ticket from Vidisha. While canceling Pragya Singh's ticket from Bhopal, Alok Sharma has been given the ticket. Jyotiraditya Scindia has been given ticket from Guna. Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav will contest elections from Alwar, Rajasthan. Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will contest from Porbandar while Sarbananda Sonowal will contest from Dibrugarh in Assam. Kiren Rijiju will contest elections from Arunachal Pradesh (West).
Saroj Pandey will contest elections from Korba in Chhattisgarh. Vijay Baghel will contest from Durg and Brijmohan Agarwal will contest from Raipur. It has been decided to make Manoj Tiwari contest from North-East Delhi seat. While VD Sharma will contest from Khajuraho. Whereas Virendra Khatik will contest elections from Tikamgarh. Whereas Ganesh Singh will contest elections from Satna. Whereas a decision has been taken to make Rahul Lodhi contest elections from Damoh. Janardan Mishra will contest from Rewa, while Himadri Singh will contest from Shahdol. Faggan Singh will contest from Kulaste Mandla. While Rodmal Nagar will contest from Rajgarh, Sudhir Gupta will contest from Mandsaur. Whereas it has been decided to field Sushma Swaraj's daughter Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi seat. Bansuri Swaraj has expressed happiness on getting the ticket.