Showing battle-readiness for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP declared its fifth candidate record on Sunday, taking its variety of declared candidates to 402.

The celebration made some large strikes like declaring 64 of the 74 seats it plans to contest within the greatest state of Uttar Pradesh, placing up star names like Kangana Ranaut from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Lord Ram’s on-screen avatar Arun Govil from Meerut, UP.

BJP has dropped a number of MPs in its newest record of 111 candidates, together with seven from Uttar Pradesh and 4 MPs from Bihar. The greatest names which have been dropped included Union ministers VK Singh from Ghaziabad and Ashwini Chaubey from Buxar. Varun Gandhi was dropped and UP minister Jitin Prasada was given Pilibhit to contest from. Varun’s mom Maneka Gandhi will contest from Sultanpur. In West Bengal, the BJP has modified the seat of its former president Dilip Ghosh from Medinipur to Bardhaman-Durgapur. The Medinipur seat might be contested now by BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul.

Last-minute joinees within the BJP have additionally promptly acquired tickets. Former Calcutta High Court Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay will contest from Tamluk, industrialist Naveen Jindal will contest from Kurukshetra whereas Haryana minister Ranjit Chautala, who was an unbiased MLA, will contest from Hisar. The latter two joined the BJP minutes earlier than the record was declared. Senior chief Tapas Roy who had stop the TMC will contest from Kolkata Uttar whereas Sita Soren will contest from Dumka. Sita is the sister-in-law of former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren. Arjun Singh who returned to BJP’s fold from TMC acquired a ticket from Barrackpur.

In Bihar, BJP has repeated lots of its large names like Ravi Shankar Prasad, RK Singh, Giriraj Singh, Ram Krupa Yadav, Nityanand Rai, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Sanjay Jaiswal and Radha Mohan Singh. BJP has declared all its 17 candidates in Bihar after the seat-sharing association with the JDU and LJP was sealed. Senior BJP chief Ok Surendran has been chosen to tackle Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad. After talks with the BJD collapsed, BJP has declared all 21 candidates in Odisha, together with Sambit Patra from Puri and Aparajita Sarangi from Bhubaneswar — two seats on which the BJP and BJD couldn’t arrive at a deal.

An fascinating battle may even be seen in West Bengal’s Krishnanagar the place BJP has put up Rajmata Amrita Roy in opposition to Mahua Moitra of the TMC. A Sandeshkhali sufferer, Rekha Patra, has been given the BJP ticket from Basirhat.