Leading figures from Piyush Goyal, Pankaja Munde, and Anurag Thakur are included on the BJP’s second list for the Lok Sabha elections

Elections to the Lok Sabha (2024): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has unveiled its second slate of candidates for the upcoming polls, which are scheduled to take place in a few weeks. The party has listed 72 candidates in its most recent list, including former chief minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar, Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Nitin Gadkari, and Anurag Thakur. It is not yet known when the general election polling will take place. The electoral commission is expected to release the election dates in a day or two, according to sources.

Two of the 195 candidates that the saffron party had listed withdrew their nominations. Examine the important contenders listed in the second list.
Maharashtra native and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari
Piyush Goyal, a union minister representing Mumbai North in Maharashtra
Pralhad Joshi, a Union Minister representing Dhawad
Anurag Singh Thakur, a Hamirpur-born union minister
East Delhi native Harsh Malhotra
Rao Inderjit Singh of Haryana’s Gurgaon
The former chief minister of Karnataka, Basavaraj Bommai, was from Haveri.
Pankaja Munde from Maharashtra’s Beed
Anil Baluni from Uttarakhand’s Garhwal
Former Uttarakhand CM Tejasvi Surya from Bangalore South in Karnataka and CM Trivendra Singh Rawat from Haridwar
Karnataka’s Shobha Karandlaje of Bangalore North

Important candidates are included on the BJP’s second list for the Lok Sabha elections.
In order to run Mihir Kotecha for the Mumbai North East seat, the BJP dismissed Manoj Kishorebhai Kotak, the current MP. Pankaja Munde, the sister of Pritam Gopinath Rao Munde, who has held the Beed Lok Sabha seat for the last two times, was selected by the party as its candidate.

The BJP decided not to run Soyam Babu Rao, the incumbent member of parliament for Telangana, in favor of Godam Nagesh, a candidate running for the Scheduled Caste seat in Adilabad.

BJP candidate Anil Baluni, a member of the Rajya Sabha and main spokesman from Garhwal, defeated incumbent Tirath Singh Rawat, a former chief minister of Uttarakhand.

In order to nominate former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat in the Haridwar seat, the party also dismissed its two-term MP and former Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.

Maharani Kriti Singh Debbarma, the BJP’s candidate for the Tripura East seat, was chosen over Rebati Tripura, the sitting member.

At least 33 incumbent Members of Parliament were replaced by fresh faces in the BJP’s initial list of candidates, which was made public on March 2, for more than 190 Lok Sabha seats.