BJP announces first candidates list for Lok Sabha polls: Here's where the top candidates including PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah will contest from

BJP has released its candidate list for the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday. The elections will begin on April 11, 2019 and culminate on May 19, 2019 .The counting take place on March 23, 2019. The BJP's central election committee (CEC) met on Wednesday evening to discuss and finalise the candidate list. The third CEC meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, and Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley in attendance. Congress has announced its candidates for 146 Lok Sabha polls so far. The BJP announced the candidates for 182 seats on Thursday. READ | BJP'S FIRST LIST OUT: BJP Releases First List Of 182 Candidates For 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. Here It Is Here are the some of the top candidates in the first list: Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar in Gujarat Rajnath Singh will contest from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh Nitin Gadkari will contes from Nagpur in Maharashtra Hema Malini will contest from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh Smriti Irani will contest from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh Dr Satyapal Singh will contest from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh Dr Mahesh Sharma will contest from Gautam Buddha Nagar in Uttar Pradesh Hansraj Gangaram Ahir will contest from Chandrapur in Maharashtra Sujay Vikhe, son of Congress leader of Opposition Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil in Maharashtra, will contest from Ahmednagar Poonam Mahajan from Mumbai-North Central in Maharashtra Former Congress leader Dr Umesh Jadhav will contest from Gulbarga in Karnataka Dr Jitendra Singh will contest from Udhampur in J and K Kirren Rijiju will contest from Arunachal East in Arunachal Pradesh Anantkumar Hegde will contest from Uttara Kannada in Karnataka DV Sadananda Gowda will contest from Bengaluru North in Karnataka Sakshi Maharaj will contest from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh Santosh Kumar Gangwar will contest from Rae Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh Dr Pritam Gopinath Munde will contest from Beed in Maharashtra Former BJD leader Baijayanta Panda will contest from Kendrapara in Odisha Dr TamilSai Soundarrajan will contest from Thoothukkudi in Tamil Nadu Pon Radhakrishnan will contest from Kanniyakumari in Tamil Nadu Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will contest from Haridwar in Uttarakhand Chandra Kumar Bose in Kolkata Dakshin in West Bengal Locket Chatterjee will contest from Hoogly in West Bengal Tapan Roy will contest from Arambagh (SC) in West Bengal Dilip Ghosh will contest from Medinipur in West Bengal Babul Supriyo will contest from Asansol in West Bengal Alphons Kannanthanam will contest from Ernakulam in Maharashtra Jual Oram will contest from Sundargarh in Odisha Col Rajyavardhan Rathore will contest from Jaipur Rural in Rajasthan Gajendra Singh Shekhawat will contest from Jodhpur in Rajasthan Babul Supriyo will contest from Asansol in West Bengal Ajay Tamta will contest from Almora in Uttarakhand VK Singh will contest from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh Read the entire list of 182 candidates below:

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BJP announces first candidates list for Lok Sabha polls: Here's where the top candidates including PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah will contest from

BJP has released its candidate list for the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday. The elections will begin on April 11, 2019 and culminate on May 17, 2019 .The counting take place on March 23, 2019. The BJP will announce the candidates for 182 seats on Thursday.

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