New Delhi, March 24: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released the seventh list of candidates for Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Meghalaya and Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election. The party announced the names of 6 candidates for Chhattisgarh elections. The saffron party also announced the names of one candidate each for Telangana, Meghalaya and Maharashtra. Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Schedule: Voting In 7 Phases From April 11 to May 19, Counting And Results On May 23.

For Chhattisgarh elections, the ruling party has given a ticket to Santosh Pandey from Rajnandagaon replacing former Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh's Son Abhishek Singh, Sunil Soni From Raipur and Arun Saw from Bilaspur among others. The BJP's Central Election Committee also give a ticket to Raghunanadan Rao from Telangana's Medak, Rikman Momim from Meghalaya's Tura and Sunil Baburao Mendhe from Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondiya. BJP 5th List of Candidates For Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Out: Anurag Thakur From Hamirpur, Jayant Sinha Gets Hazaribagh; Check Constituency-Wise Names Here.

BJP's seventh list of candidates for Lok Sabha Elections:

The Bharatiya Janata Party has announced the names of 306 candidates for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in seven lists released so far, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi and party chief Amit Shah replacing LK Advani from Gandhinagar. Mostly all representative for the seat polling in the first two phases are included in the list.

The saffron party has fielded Union Ministers Jayant Sinha from Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Narendra Singh Tomar from Morena (Madhya Pradesh), Shripad Naik from North Goa. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will again contest from Lucknow while Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib in Bihar, replacing actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha.

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