NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its first list of 54 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday. The list included candidates for Jammu and Kashmir, Arunchal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, West Bengal, Odisha, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh.
After a meeting of the party’s central election committee, the party released the first list packed with a many sitting and former members of Parliament and ministers,
First list of BJP candidates for 2014 Lok Sabha elections
Sl. – Name of State – Constituency No. & Name – Name of Candidate
1. Arunachal Pradesh 1 Arunachal West Shri Kiren Rijijuji, Ex-MP
2. Arunachal Pradesh 2 Arunachal East Shri Tapir Gao, Ex-MP
3. Manipur 1 Inner Manipur Dr. R.K. Ranjan Singh
4. Manipur 2 Outer Manipur (ST) Prof. Gangmumei Kamei
5. Goa 1 North Goa Shri Shripad Yesso Naik, Sitting MP
6. Goa 2 South Goa Shri Narendra Keshav Sawaikar, State General Secretary
7. West Bengal 1 Cooch Behar (SC) Shri Hemchandra Burman, District President
8. West Bengal 3 Jalpaiguri (SC) Shri Satyalal Sarkar, Ex-DIG, SSB
9. West Bengal 6 Balurghat Shri Biswapriya Roychowdhary State General Secretary
10. West Bengal 7 Maldaha Uttar Shri Subashkrishna Goswami Elected Block Member
11. West Bengal 9 Jangipur Shri Samrat Ghosh, District General Secretary
12. West Bengal 11 Murshidabad Shri Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Retd. IPS
13. West Bengal 12 Krishnanagar Shri Satyabrata Mukherjee, Ex-MP & Central Minister
14. West Bengal 13 Ranaghat (SC) Dr. Supravat Biswas, National Executive Member
15. West Bengal 16 Dum Dum Shri Tapan Sikdar, Ex-MP & Central Minister
16. West Bengal 17 Barasat Shri P.C. Sarkar (Jr.), World Famous Magician
17. West Bengal 20 Mathurapur (SC) Shri Tapan Naskar, District General Secretary
18. West Bengal 21 Diamond Harbour Shri Avijit Das, State BJYM Member
19. West Bengal 23 Kolkata Dakshin Shri Tathagata Roy, Ex State President
20. West Bengal 24 Kolkata Uttar Shri Rahul Sinha, State President
21. West Bengal 25 Howrah Shri George Baker, Film Actor (Christian Minority)
22. West Bengal 26 Uluberia Shri R.K. Mahanti, Retd. IPS
23. West Bengal 36 Bankura Dr. Subash Sarkar, State Vice President
24. Odisha 2 Sundargarh (ST) Shri Jual Oram, Former Minister
25. Odisha 3 Sambalpur Shri Suresh Pujari, State Gen. Secy., and Ex-State President
26. Odisha 9 Dhenkanal Shri Rudra Narayan Pani, Ex-MP (Rajya Sabha)
27. Odisha 10 Bolangir Smt. Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Ex-MP
28. Odisha 12 Nabarangpur (ST) Shri Parsuram Majhi, State Vice President and Ex-MP
29. Odisha 16 Jagatsinghpur (SC) Shri Baidhar Mallik, Ex-MLA
30. Maharashtra 2 Dhule Dr. Subhash Bhamre, Famous Cancer Surgeon
31. Maharashtra 3 Jalgaon Shri Ashok Tapiram Patil, (A.T. Nana Patil), Sitting MP
32. Maharashtra 4 Raver Shri Haribhau Javle, Sitting MP
33. Maharashtra 6 Akola Shri Sanjya Dhotre, Sitting MP
34. Maharashtra 10 Nagpur Shri Nitin Gadkari, Ex-National President
35. Maharashtra 11 Bhandara – Gondiya Shri Nana Patole, Sitting MLA
36. Maharashtra 12 Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST) Shri Ashok Nete, State President, ST Morcha
37. Maharashtra 13 Chandrapur Shri Hansraj Ahir, Sitting MP
38. Maharashtra 16 Nanded Shri D.B. Patil, Ex-MP
39. Maharashtra 18 Jalna Shri Ravsaheb Danve Patil, Sitting MP
40. Maharashtra 20 Dindori (ST) Shri Harishchandra Chowhan, Sitting MP
41. Maharashtra 22 Palghar (ST) Ad. Chintaman Vanga, Sitting MLA & Ex-MP
42. Maharashtra 26 Mumbai North Shri Gopal Shetti, Sitting MLA
43. Maharashtra 28 Mumbai North East Dr. Kirit Somaiya, Ex-MP
44. Maharashtra 37 Ahmadnagar Shri Dilip Gandhi, Sitting MP
45. Maharashtra 39 Beed Shri Gopinath Munde, Dy. Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha
46. Maharashtra 44 Sangli Shri Sanjaykaka Patil, Ex-MLA
47. Himachal Pradesh 1 Kangra Shri Shanta Kumar, Ex-CM and Ex-Minister
48. Himachal Pradesh 3 Hamirpur Shri Anurag Thakur, Sitting MP and National President BJYM
49. Himachal Pradesh 4 Shimla (SC) Shri Virendra Kashyap, Sitting MP
50. Jammu & Kashmir 1 Baramulla Shri Gulam Mohammad Meer,
51. Jammu & Kashmir 3 Anantnag Mushtaq Ahmad Malik, Nurabadi
52. Jammu & Kashmir 4 Ladakh Shri Thunpsthan Chhewang, National Executive Member
53. Jammu & Kashmir 5 Udhampur Dr. Jitendra Singh, National Executive Member & State Spokesperson
54. Jammu & Kashmir 6 Jammu Shri Jugal Kishore Sharma, State President
