The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its third list of Lok Sabha candidates on Thursday. Former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan will contest the polls from Chennai South.
Other candidates like Union Minister L Murugan in the fray from Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai from Coimbatore, and former union minister Pon Radhakrishnan from Kanyakumari.
Vinoj P Selvam will contest from Chennai Central, A C Shanmugam from Vellore, C Narasimhan from Krishnagiri, and Nainar Nagendran from Tirunelveli, the party said.
Polling in the state’s 39 Lok Sabha seats will be held in the first phase on April 19. The BJP did not win a single seat from Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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The second list of the saffron party included the names of 72 candidates. The nominees included 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 was fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand.
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BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawade announced the first list of candidates for the following seats: 51 seats from Uttar Pradesh, 20 from West Bengal, 24 from Madhya Pradesh, 15 each from Gujarat and Rajasthan, 12 from Kerala, 9 seats from Telangana, 11 from Assam, 11 each from Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, five from Delhi, two from Jammu and Kashmir, three from Uttarakhand, two from Arunachal Pradesh and one each from Goa, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar, and Daman and Diu.
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