New Delhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi's name has also been announced and he will contest from Banaras.

Praveen Khandelwal from Chandni Chowk, Manoj Tiwari from North East Delhi, Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi, Kamaljeet Sehrawat from West Delhi and Rambir Bidhuri from South Delhi will be the BJP candidates.

Similarly, tickets have been given to Vishnu from Andaman, Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal West, Tapir Gao from Arunachal East, Parimal Shukla from Silchar, Bijli Kalita from Guwahati and Sarbananda Sonowal from Dibrugarh.

BJP candidate from Uttar Pradesh

Sanjeev Balyan from Muzaffarnagar, Mahendra Sharma from Gautam Buddha Nagar, Hema Malini from Mathura, SPS Baghel from Agra, Rajkumar Chahar from Fatehpur Sikri, Ajay Mishra Teni from Kheri, Rajesh Verma from Sitapur, Jaiprakash Rawat from Hardoi, Sakshi Maharaj from Unnao, Lucknow. Rajnath Singh from Amethi, Subrata Pathak from Kannauj, Devendra Bhole from Akbarpur, Anurag Sharma from Jhansi, Pushpendra Singh Chandel from Hamirpur, RK Patel from Banda, Upendra Rawat from Barabanki and Lallu Singh from Faizabad.

BJP candidates in Jharkhand

BJP has made Nishikant Dubey from Godda, Sanjay Seth from Ranchi, Vidyut Mahato from Jamshedpur, Arjun Munda from Khunti and Vishnu Dayal Ram from Palamu as its candidates.

BJP candidate from Chhattisgarh

Saroj Pandey got the ticket from Korba, Santosh Pandey from Rajnandgaon, Vijay Baghel from Durg, Brijmohan Agarwal from Raipur, Mahesh Kashyap from Bastar and Bhojraj from Kanker.

BJP candidate from Gujarat

BJP expressed confidence in Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, Purushottam Rupala from Rajkot, Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar, Rajpal Singh Mahendra Singh Yadav from Panchmahal, Jaswant Singh from Dahod, Mansukh Bhai Vasava from Bharuch and CR Patil from Navsari.

BJP candidate from Madhya Pradesh

Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna, Rahul Lodhi from Damoh, VD Sharma from Khajuraho, Janardan Mishra from Rewa, Himadri Singh from Shahdol, Ashish Dubey from Jabalpur, Darshan Chaudhary from Hoshangabad, Shivraj Singh Chauhan from Vidisha, Alok Sharma from Bhopal, Rodmal Nagar from Rajgarh. And ticket has been given to Nyaneshwar Patil from Khandwa.