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BJP Central Election Committee Meeting being held at party headquarters in New Delhi
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai.
BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand.
In Delhi, it has fielded two new candidates -- Harsh Malhotra from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi.
In Karnataka, Union minister Pralhad Joshi will fight from Dharwad while former chief minister B S Yediyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra will contest from Shimoga.
Tejasvi Surya, the BJP's youth wing chief, will seek re-election from Bengaluru South.
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal family replaces Pratap Simha as the BJP candidate in the Mysore seat.
Earlier this month, the BJP had announced its first list of more than 190 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, due in April-May.
| 1 | Kalaben Delkar | Dadra & Nagar Haveli |
| 2 | Harsh Malhotra | East Delhi |
| 3 | Yogendra Chandolia | North West Delhi (SC) |
| 4 | Bhikhaji Dudhaji Thakor | Sabarkantha, Gujarat |
| 5 | Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel | Ahmedabad East |
| 6 | Nimuben Bambhania | Bhavnagar |
| 7 | Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt | Vadodara |
| 8 | Jashubhai Bhilubhai Rathwa | Chhota Udaipur (ST) |
| 9 | Mukeshbhai Chandrakant Dalal | Surat |
| 10 | Dhawan Patel | Valsad (ST) |
| 11 | Banto Kataria | Ambala (SC), Haryana |
| 12 | Ashok Tanwar | Sirsa (SC), Haryana |
| 13 | Manohar Lal Khattar | Karnal |
| 14 | Chaudhary Dharambir Singh | Bhiwani-Mahendragarh |
| 15 | Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav | Gurgaon |
| 16 | Krishan Pal Gurjar | Faridabad |
| 17 | Anurag Thakur | Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh |
| 18 | Suresh Kumar Kashyap | Shimla |
| 19 | Annasaheb Shankar Jolle | Chikkodi, Karnataka |
| 20 | P C gaddigoudar | Bagalkot |
| 21 | Ramesh Jigajinagi | Bijapur (SC) |
| 22 | Umesh G Jadhav | Gulbarga (SC) |
| 23 | Bhagwanth Khuba | Bidar |
| 24 | Basavaraj Kyavator | Koppal |
| 25 | B Sriramulu | Bellary (ST) |
| 26 | Basavaraj Bommai | Haveri |
| 27 | Pralhad Joshi | Dharwad |
| 28 | Gayathri Siddeshwara | Davanagere |
| 29 | B Y Raghavendra | Shimoga |
| 30 | Kota Srinivas Pojary | Udupi Chikmangalur |
| 31 | Capt Brijesh Chowta | Dakshina Kannada |
| 32 | V Somanna | Tumkur |
| 33 | Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar | Mysore |
| 34 | S Balaraj | Chamarajanagar (SC) |
| 35 | C N Manjunath | Bangalore Rural |
| 36 | Kumari Shobha Karandlaje | Bangalore North |
| 37 | P C Mohan | Bangalore Central |
| 38 | Tejasvi Surya | Bangalore South |
| 39 | Dr Bharti Pardhi | Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh |
| 40 | Vivek 'Bunty' Sahu | Chhindwara |
| 41 | Anil Firoziya | Ujjain (SC) |
| 42 | Savitri Thakur | Dhar (ST) |
| 43 | Shankar Lalwani | Indore |
| 44 | Heena Vijaykumar Gavit | Nandurbar (ST), Maharashtra |
| 45 | Subhash Ramrao Bhamre | Dhule |
| 46 | Smita Wagh | Jalgaon |
| 47 | Raksha Nikhil Khadase | Raver |
| 48 | Anup Dhotre | Akola |
| 49 | Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas | Wardha |
| 50 | Nitin Gadkari | Nagpur |
| 51 | Sudhir Mungantiwar | Chandrapur |
| 52 | Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar | Nanded |
| 53 | Raosaheb Dadarao Danve | Jalna |
| 54 | Bharati Pravin Pawar | Dindori (ST) |
| 55 | Kapil Moreshwar Patil | Bhiwandi |
| 56 | Piyush Goyal | Mumbai North |
| 57 | Mihir Kotecha | Mumbai North East |
| 58 | Murlidhar Kisan Mohol | Pune |
| 59 | Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil | Ahmadnagar |
| 60 | Pankaja Munde | Beed |
| 61 | Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangare | Latur (SC) |
| 62 | Ranjeetsinha Hindurao Naik-Nimbalkar | Madha |
| 63 | Sanjaykaka Patil | Sangli |
| 64 | Godam Nagesh | Adilabad (ST), Telangana |
| 65 | Gomasa Srinivas | Peddapalle (SC) |
| 66 | Madavaneni Raghunandan Rao | Medak |
| 67 | D K Aruna | Mahbubnagar |
| 68 | Saida Reddy | Nalgonda |
| 69 | Azmeera Seetaram Naik | Mahabubabad (ST) |
| 70 | Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma | Tripura East (ST) |
| 71 | Anil Baluni | Garhwal, Uttarakhand |
| 72 | Trivendra Singh Rawat | Hardwar |