BJP announces 4th list, K Surendran gets nod from Pathanamthitta

Mar 23 (AZINS) BJP on Saturday announced names for 11 more constituencies. In the new list, 6 candidates are from Telangana, 3 from Uttar Pradesh, 1 from Kerala and 1 from West Bengal. With this, the party has announced names for 249 seats for upcoming Lok Sabha election.

K Surendran has been named from the crucial Pathanamthitta constituency in Kerala, where Sabarimala is located. BJP is hopeful of winning in Sabarimala after it spearheaded a massive agitation post the Supreme Court verdict. 7 seats named are from Telangana, where BJP is a relatively minor player.

From Kairana, where BJP lost recently in by-election, it has fielded Pradeep Choudhary. Candidates have been also announced for Nagina and Bulanshashr seat. In Jangipur, West Bengal, BJP has fielded Mafuja Khatun. Abhijit Mukherjee from Congress is fighting from Janggipur.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released a list of 36 candidates for Lok Sabha candidates in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Maharashtra and Odisha ahead of the general elections.The party has fielded Girish Bapat from Pune (Maharashtra), its national spokesperson Sambit Patra from Puri (Odisha), Dilip Kumar Kilaru from Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), Bharati Pawar from Dindori (Maharashtra) and Sanbor Shullai from Shillong (Meghalaya).

The decision was taken after a meeting of the Central Election Committee of the BJP here. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj among others.