The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday launched its second checklist of candidates for Lok Sabha elections. The 72 names on the checklist embrace Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Singh Thakur, Pralhad Joshi, and Piyush Goyal.

Anurag Singh Thakur has been pitted from Himachal Pradesh’s Hamipur seat, Gadkari from Nagpur,  Pralhad Joshi From Dharwad, Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North, MoS Shobha Karandlaje from Banglore North, Tejasvi Surya from Bangalore South and Trivendra Singh Rawat from Hardwar.

Manohar Lal Khattar, who resigned as Haryana CM earlier this week, will contest from Karnal Lok Sabha seat. Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Ashok Tanwar will contest as BJP candidate from Sirsa.

Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav has been pitted from Gurgaon, Minister of State of Heavy Industries Kishan Pal Gurjar from Faridabad, Pankaja Munde from Beed in Maharashtra, MoS Bharati Pravi Pawar from Dindori, Raosaheb Dadarao Danve from Jalna, and Sudhir Mungantiwar from Chandrapur.

Mysore MP Pratap Simha, whose title got here up through the Parliament safety breach incident, has been dropped. He is changed by Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar of the erstwhile Mysore royal household. Former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s son B Y Raghavendra will contest from Shimoga and former Karnataka CM Basavarj Bommai can be within the fray from Haveri seat.

BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand.

In Delhi, the BJP has dropped six out of its seven sitting MPs. Harsh Malhotra will contest from East Delhi and Yogendra Chandolia from North West Delhi.

BJP chief Vivek Sahu will face former MP CM Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath in Chindwara.

The BJP’s Central Election Committee on Monday held its second assembly to resolve on the candidates for the Lok Sabha elections as its senior leaders, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, went by the checklist of probables for a number of states to make closing selections.

In the primary checklist, the BJP named its candidates for 195 seats unfold throughout 16 states and two Union territories. However, two of them, Bhojpuri singer-actor Pawan Singh and Upendra Rawat, withdrew after their selections sparked controversies.

The get together’s mind belief, together with Home Minister Amit Shah and Nadda, has held a sequence of conferences with its leaders from states to attract the lists of probables earlier than the CEC takes a closing name.