Tejasvi Surya, the BJP’s youth wing chief, will seek re-election from Bengaluru South.
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.
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.
Tejasvi Surya, who serves as the chief of BJP’s youth wing, has announced to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Bengaluru South.
Meanwhile, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal family has been selected as the BJP candidate for the Mysore seat, replacing Pratap Simha.
Earlier this month, the BJP had released its first list of over 190 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, which are scheduled to be held in April-May.
