New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has officially released its inaugural list of 195 candidates for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The roster includes key figures such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, and others. Notably, 34 Central government ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Smriti Irani, have been fielded in this initial list. PM Modi is slated to contest once again from the Varanasi constituency.

During the announcement, BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde declared, "PM Modi will contest Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, Union Minister for Law and Justice Kiran Rijiju from Arunachal West, BJP MP Bishnu Pada Ray from Andaman & Nicobar, BJP MP Tapir Gao from Arunachal East, and Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal from Dibrugarh."

Vinod Tawde expressed optimism, anticipating that the BJP would secure a mandate for the third consecutive term under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The list provides a state-wise breakdown of the candidates, covering various constituencies across the nation, showcasing the diversity of the BJP's choices for the upcoming elections.

Here is the state-wise list of 195 BJP candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections:

BJP Candidates List for Lok Sabha elections 2024:

Uttar Pradesh
- Varanasi: PM Narendra Modi

Andaman & Nicobar Islands (UT):
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Bishnu Pada Ray

Arunachal Pradesh:
- Arunachal West: Kiren Rijiju
- Arunachal East: Tapir Gao

Assam:
- Karinganj: Kripanath Mallah
- Silchar: Parimal Suklabaidya
- Autonomous District: Amar Singh Tisso
- Gauhati: Bijuli Kalita Medhi
- Mangaldoi: Dilip Saikia
- Tezpur: Ranjit Dutta
- Nowgong: Suresh Bora
- Kaliabor: Kamakhya Prasad Tasa
- Jorhat: Topon Kumar Gogoi
- Dibrugarh: Sarbananda Sonowal
- Lakhimpur: Pradhan Baruah

Chhattisgarh:
- Sarguja: Chintamani Maharaj
- Raigarh: Radheshyan Rathia
- Janjgir Champa: Kamlesh Jangde
- Korba: Saroj Pandey
- Bilaspur: Tokhan Sahu
- Rajnandgaon: Santosh Pandey
- Durg: Vijay Baghel
- Raipur: Brijmohan Agarwal
- Mahasamund: Roop Kumari Choudhary
- Bastar: Mahesh Kashyap
- Kanker: Bhojraj Nag

Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu:
- Daman & Diu: Lalubhai Patel

Delhi:
- Chandni Chowk: Praveen Khandelwal
- North East Delhi: Manoj Tiwari
- New Delhi: Bansuri Swaraj
- West Delhi: Kamaljeet Sehrawat
- South Delhi: Ramvir Singh Bidhuri

Goa:
- North Goa: Shripad Nesso Naik

Gujarat:
- Kachchh: Vinodbhai Lakhmashi Chavda
- Banaskantha: Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Choudhary
- Patan: Bharatsinhji Dabhi
- Gandhinagar: Amit Shah
- Ahmedabad West: Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana
- Rajkot: Parshottam Rupala
- Porbandar: Mansukhbhai Mandaviya
- Jamnagar: Poonamben Maadam
- Anand: Miteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel
- Kheda: Devusinh Chauhan
- Panchmahal: Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadhav
- Dahod: Jaswantsinh Bhabhor
- Bharuch: Mansukhbhai Vasava
- Bardoli: Prabhubhai Nadarbhai Vasava
- Navsari: CR Patil

Jammu & Kashmir:
- Udhampur: Dr Jitendra Singh
- Jammu: Jugal Kishore Sharma

Jharkhand:
- Rajmahal: Tala Marandi
- Dumka: Sunil Soren
- Godda: Nishikant Dubey
- Kodarma: Annapurna Devi
- Ranchi: Sanjay Seth
- Jamshedpur: Vidyut Baran Mahato
- Singhbhum: Geeta Koda
- Khunti: Arjun Munda
- Lohardaga: Samr Oraon
- Palamau: Vishnu Dayal Ram
- Hazaribagh: Manish Jaiswal

Kerala:
- Kasaragod: ML Ashwini
- Kannur: C Raghunath
- Vadakara: Prafulla Krishna
- Kozhikode: MT Ramesh
- Malappuram: Abdul Salam
- Ponnani: Niveditha Subramanian
- Palakkad: C Krishnakumar
- Thrissur: Suresh Gopi
- Alappuzha: Sobha Surendran
- Pathanamthitta: Anil K Antony
- Attingal: V Muraleedharan
- Thiruvananthapuram: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Madhya Pradesh:
- Morena: Shivmangal Singh Tomar
- Bhind: Sandhya Rai
- Gwalior: Bharat Singh Kushwaha
- Guna: Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Sagar: Lata Wankhede
- Tikamgarh: Virendra Khatik
- Damoh: Rahul Lodhi
- Khajuraho: VD Sharma
- Satna: Ganesh Singh
- Rewa: Janandan Mishra
- Sidhi: Rajesh Mishra
- Shahdol: Himadri Singh
- Jabalpur: Ashish Dubey
- Mandla: Faggan Singh Kulaste
- Hoshangabad: Darshan Singh Choudhary
- Vidisha: Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Bhopal: Alok Sharma
- Rajgarh: Rodmal Nagar
- Dewas: Mahendra Singh Solanki
- Mandsour: Sudhir Gupta
- Ratlam: Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan
- Khargone: Gajendra Patel
- Khandwa: Gyaneshwar Patil
- Betul: Durga Das Uikey

Rajasthan:
- Bikaner: Arjun Ram Meghwal
- Churu: Devendra Jhajharia
- Sikar: Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati
- Alwar: Bhupendra Yadav
- Bharatpur: Ramswaroop Koli
- Nagaur: Jyoti Mirdha
- Pali: PP Chaudhary
- Jodhpur: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Barmer: Kailash Choudhary
- Jalore: Lumbaram Choudhary
- Udaipur: Mannalal Rawat
- Banswara: Mahendra Malviya
- Chittorgarh: CP Joshi
- Kota: Om Birla
- Jhalawar-Baran: Dushyant Singh

Telangana:
- Karimnagar: Bandi Sanjay Kumar
- Nizamabad: Arvind Dharmapuri
- Zahirabad: BB Patil
- Malkajgiri: Etela Rajender
- Secunderabad: G Kishan Reddy
- Hyderabad: Dr Madhavi Latha
- Chelvella: Konda Vishweshwar Reddy
- Nagarkurnool: P Bharat
- Bhongir: BooraNarsaiah Goud

Tripura:
- Tripura West: Biplab Kumar Deb

Uttarakhand:
- Tehri Garhwal: Mala Rajya Laxmi Saha
- Almora: Ajay Tamta
- Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar: Ajay Bhatt

Uttar Pradesh:
- Kairana: Pradeep Kumar
- Muzaffarnagar: Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
- Nagina: Om Kumar
- Rampur: Ghanshyam Lodhi
- Sambhal: Parameshwar Lal Saini
- Amroha: Kanwar Singh Tanwar
- Gautam Buddha Nagar: Mahesh Sharma
- Bulandshahr: Bhola Singh
- Mathura: Hema Malini
- Agra: Satyapal Singh Baghel
- Fatehpur Sikri: Raj Kumar Chahar
- Etah: Rajveer Singh
- Aonla: Dharmendra Kashyap
- Sahajahanpur: Arun Kumar Sagar
- Kheri: Ajay Mishra Teni
- Dhaurahra: Rekha Verma
- Sitapur: Rajesh Verma
- Hardoi: Jai Prakash Rawat
- Misrikh: Ashok Kumar Rawat
- Unnao: Sakshi Maharaj
- Mohanlalganj: Kaushal Kishore
- Lucknow: Rajnath Singh
- Amethi: Smriti Irani
- Pratagarh: Sangam Lal Gupta
- Farrukhabad: Mukesh Rajput
- Etawah: Ram Shankar Katheria
- Kannau: Subrat Pathak
- Akbarpur: Shri Devendra Singh “Bhole"
- Jalaun: Bhanu Prata Singh Verma
- Jhansi: Anurag Sharma
- Hamirpur: Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel
- Banda: R.K. Singh Patel
- Fatehpur: Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
- Barabanki: Upendra Singh Rawat
- Faizabad: Lallu Singh
- Ambedkar Nagar: Ritesh Pande
- Shrawasti: Saket Mishra
- Gonda: Kirti Vardhan Singh
- Domariyaganj: Jagdambika Pal
- Basti: Harish Dwivedi
- Sant Kabir Nagar: Praveen Kumar Nishad
- Maharaganj: Pankaj Choudhary
- Gorakhpur: Ravi Kishan
- Kushi Nagar: Vijay Kumar Dubey
- Bansgaon: Kamlesh Paswan
- Lalganj: Neelam Sonkar
- Azamgarh: Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’
- Salempur: Ravindra Kushwaha
- Jaunpur: Kripashankar Singh
- Chandauli: Mahendra Nath Pande

West Bengal:
- Cooch Behar: Nisith Pramanik
- Alipurduars: Manoj Tigga
- Balurghat: Sukanta Majumdar
- Maldaha Uttar: Khagen Murmu
- Maldaha Dakshin: Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury
- Baharampur: Nirmal Kumar Saha
- Murshidabad: Gauri Shankar Ghosh
- Ranaghat: Jagannath Sarkar
- Bangaon: Shantanu Thakur
- Joynagar: Ashok Kandari
- Jadavpur: Anirban Ganguly
- Howrah: Rathin Chakraborty
- Hooghly: Locket Chatterjee
- Kanthi: Soumendu Adhikari
- Ghatal: Hiranmay Chattopadhyay
- Purulia: Jyotirmay Singh Mahato
- Bankura: Shubash Sarkar
- Bishnupur: Soumitra Khan
- Asansol: Pawan Singh
- Bolpur: Priya Saha