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Karnataka: BJP announces names of candidates for 22 Lok Sabha seats
The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Thursday released its first list of 184 candidates for Lok Sabha poll, including names of party`s candidates from 22 seats in Karnataka.
The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Thursday released its first list of 184 candidates for Lok Sabha poll, including names of party's candidates from 22 seats in Karnataka.
Some important names which are mentioned in the first list are Anant Kumar Hegde from North Kannada, Sadanand Gowda from Bangalore North, B Y Raghavendra from Shimoga and Prathap Sinha from Mysore.
Here's the full list
Constituency Name of candidates
Belgaum Sri Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi
Bagalkot Sri Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar
Bijapur(SC) Sri Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi
Gulbarga(SC) Dr Umesh Jadhav
Bidar Sri Bhagwanth Khuba
Bellary Sri Devendrappa
Haveri Sri Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi
Dharwad Sri Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi
Uttara Kannada Sri Anantkumar Hegde
Davanagere Sri Gowdar M Siddeshwara
Shimoga Sri B Y Raghavendra
Udupi Chikmagalur Kum. Shobha Karandlaje
Hassan Sri A Manju
Dakshina Kannada Sri Nalin Kumar Kateel
Chitradurga(SC) Sri A Narayana Swamy
Tumkur Sri G S Basavaraju
Mysore Sri Prathap Simha
Chamrajanagar Sri Srinivasa Prasad
Bangalore North Sri D.V. Sadananda Gowda
Bangalore Central Sri P. C. Mohan
Chikkballapur Sri B N Bachchegowda
Addressing a press conference, Union Minister and senior BJP leader J P Nadda said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi, while BJP President Amit Shah will enter the fray from Gandhinagar. Home Minister Rajnath Singh will be party's candidate from Lucknow, while Smriti Irani will fight against Congress President Rahul Gandhi from Amethi. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will contest from Nagpur.