The polling will be held on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19 for 543 Lok Sabha seats.
NEW DELHI: The BJP announced the first list of candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2019 on Thursday. Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda said a total of 182 candidates will be announced.
PM Modi will contest from Varanasi, Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, Rajnath Singh from Lucknow and Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur. Nadda further said that VK Singh will contest from Ghaziabad, Hema Malini from Mathura and Smriti Irani from Amethi.
In Maharashtra, MoS Defence Subhash Bhamre will contest from Dhule, Hansraj Ahir from Chandrapur and Poonam Mahajan from Mumbai North Central.
The Lok Sabha elections 2019 will be held in seven phases across the country. The elections will begin on April 11 and the counting of the votes will be held on May 23.
In the first phase, the polling will be held in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Sikkim, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep, Delhi, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand.
The BJP has finalised names of all 17 party candidates from Bihar and sent the list to the state unit which will announce it jointly with allies, Nadda said.
Announcing the seven-phase schedule for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora also said 10 lakh polling stations would be set up this time as against about nine lakhs in 2014.
The list comes after a series of meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee.PM Modi, BJP Chief Amit Shah, Senior party leaders and Union Ministers including Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh were among those present in the meeting in New Delhi.
