BJP nominates Smriti Irani from Amethi and Amit Shah from Gandhinagar: view the complete list

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The initial slate of candidates for the April–May Lok Sabha elections was released by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday. Up to 195 candidates have been put out by the ruling party for the important seats, including Gandhinagar, Gujarat's Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

34 central ministers and two former chief ministers were named on the BJP's initial list. Some notable figures on the list are the former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha, Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna, Smriti Irani from Amethi, and Mansukh Mandaviya Porbandar seat from Union Civil Aviation.

Here's the full list of candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party:

Varanasi: Narendra Modi

Gandhinagar: Amit Shah

Amethi: Smriti Irani

Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Bishnu Pada Ray

Arunachal West : Kiren Rijiju

Arunachal East: Tapir Gao

 Karimganj (SC): Kripanath Mallah

Silchar: Parimal Suklabaidya

Autonomous District: Amar Sing Tisso

Gauhati: Bijuli Kalita Medhi

Mangaldoi: Dilip Saikia

Tezpur: Â Ranjit Dutta

Nowgong: Suresh Bora

Kaliabor: Kamakhaya Prasad Tasa

Jorhat : Topon Kumar Gogai

Dibrugarh: Â Sarbananda Sonowal

Lakhimpur: Pradhan BaruahÂ

Sarguja (ST): Â Chintamani Maharaj

Raigarh (ST): Radheshyam RathiaÂ

Janjgir-Champa (SC): Â Kamlesh Jangde

Korba: Saroj PandeyÂ

Bilaspur: Â Tokhan Sahu

Rajnandgaon: Santosh PandeyÂ

Durg: Vijay BaghelÂ

Raipur: Brijmohan Agarwal

Mahasamund: Roop Kumari ChoudharyÂ

Bastar (ST): Mahesh Kashyap

Kanker - Bhoraj Nag

Daman & Diu - Lalubhai Patel

Chandni Chawk - Praveen KhandelwalÂ

Northeast Delhi - Manoj Tiwari

New Delhi - Bansuri Swaraj

West Delhi - Kamaljeet Sehrawat

South Delhi - Ramvir Singh Bhiduri

North Goa - Shripad Yesso Naik

Kachchh - Vinodbhai Lakshmashi Chavda

Banaskantha - Rekhaben Hitestbhai Chaudhary

Patan - Bharatsinhji Dabhi

Ahmedabad West - Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana

Rajkot - Parshottam Rupala

Porbandar - Mansukh Mandaviya

Jamnagar - Poonamben Maadam

Anand - Miteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel

Kheda - Devusinh Chauhan

Panchmahal - Rajpalsinh Mehendrasinh Jadhav

Dahod - Jasvantsinh Bhabhor

Bharuch - Mansukhbhai Vasava

Bardoli - Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava

Navasari - CR Patil

Udhampur - Jitendra Singh

Jammu - Jugal Kishore Sharma