Former Governor K. Rajasekharan will contest against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor
Former Governor K. Rajasekharan will contest against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor
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New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday In the first list, BJP declared 184 names. Union minister JP Nadda released the list in the press conference. The first list includes 28 candidates from UP, 16 from Maharashtra, eight from Assam, two from Arunachal Pradesh, six from Chhattisgarh, one each from Andaman Nicobar Island and Dadar Nagar Haveli, five from Jammu Kashmir, 21 in Karnataka, 13 from Kerala, One of Lakshadweep, one from Manipur, two from Mizoram, ten in Odisha, 16 in Rajasthan, one in Sikkim, five from Tamil Nadu, ten in Telangana, two in Tripura, five in Uttarakhand, two from Andhra Pradesh and 28 from West Bengal. Among has been announced.

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Among the 13 candidates declared by BJP from Kerala, Union Minister Alphonso Kannathanam and former Mizoram governor Kummanam Rajshekaran (Kummanam Rajasekharan) are also included. However, the party has not announced the name of the candidate for the Pathanamthitta seat. Kannanathanam will contest the elections from Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat. Rajasekharan (Kummanam Rajasekharan), who resigned as the Governor of Mizoram earlier this month, has been fielded from Thiruvananthapuram constituency against senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor. BJP is contesting 14 out of 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala.

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