BJP 5th list out for Lok Sabha elections ; Kangana, Ramayana’s Ram fielded by BJP
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ March 24,2024
The saffron party, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced its fifth list of candidates for the upcoming 18th Lok Sabha elections.
The list featuring some big names including Naveen Jindal from Haryana’s Kurukshetra, actress Kangana Ranaut from Himachal’s Mandi and Arun Govil (who played Ram in popular TV serial Ramayan) from Meerut.
Ranjit Chautala, the son of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal, will contest from Hisar.Senior leader and Kerala BJP chief K Surendran will contest against Congress’s Rahul Gandhi from Kerala’s Wayanad. The saffron party has dropped Varun Gandhi, though his mother Maneka Gandhi has been fielded from Sultanpur. Varun Gandhi’s seat, Pilibhit, has gone to former Congressman Jitin Prasada, who changed sides in the run-up to the election.
Also Nityanand Rai to contest from Ujiarpur. Giriraj Singh from Begusarai. Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib. Kangana Ranaut from Mandi. Naveen Jindal from Kurukshetra. Sita Soren from Dumka. Jagadish Shettar from Belgaum. K Sudhakaran from Chikkaballapur Dharmendra Pradhan from Sambalpur. Pratap Sarangi from Balasore. Sambit Patra from Puri. Aparijita Sarangi from Bhubaneswar.
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