BJP 2nd Candidate List: 6 Names Announced For Haryana; Ex-CM Khattar To Contest From Karnal

The BJP has announced candidates for six out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, fielding former Chief Minister and senior leader Manohar Lal Khattar from the Karnal constituency.

Written by: Gazi Abbas Shahid

Updated: March 13, 2024, 8:01 PM IST

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Former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will contest the Lok Sabha Polls from the Karnal seat. (File Photo: ANI)

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The BJP on Thursday announced its second list of 72 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. In its second list, the ruling party has announced candidates for six out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, fielding former Chief Minister and senior leader Manohar Lal Khattar from the Karnal constituency.

Here’s the BJP’s list of six candidates for Haryana:

• Banto Kataria – Ambala (SC)
• Ashok Tanwar – Sirsa (SC)
• Manohar Lal Khattar – Karnal
• Chaudhary Dharambir Singh – Bhiwani-Mahendragarh
• Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav – Gurgaon (Gurugram)
• Krishan Pal Gurjar – Faridabad

Notably, earlier in the day, Khattar resigned as MLA from the Karnal constituency, amid speculations that the former CM was likely to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from same Lok Sabha constituency.

On Tuesday, Khattar was replaced by Kurukshetra MP Nayab Singh Saini as the new chief minister of Haryana following the collapse of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) alliance and Khattar’s subsequent resignation as CM.

BJP 2nd candidate list

The BJP on Wednesday released its second list of candidates for the upcoming general elections, naming Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai, in its list of 72 candidates.

According to the list, BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand, while in Delhi, the saffron party has fielded two new candidates– Harsh Malhotra from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi.

In Karnataka, Union minister Pralhad Joshi will fight from Dharwad while former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s son B Y Raghavendra will contest from Shivamogga.

Tejasvi Surya, the BJP’s youth wing chief, will seek re-election from Bengaluru South.

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal family replaces Pratap Simha as the BJP candidate in the Mysore seat.

Earlier this month, the BJP had announced its first list of 195 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, due in April-May.