ELECTIONS LIVE: Shah replaces Advani in Gandhinagar; check BJP's first list

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced a list of 182 candidates for Lok Sabha polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi and Amit Shah will fight from Gandhinagar. General VK Singh will contest the Ghaziabad seat. Smriti Irani will contest from Congress bastion Amethi, while Nitin Gadkari will fight for the Nagpur seat. 

Check the full list here:

Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar constituency, which LK Advani retained for from 1998 to 2019.

Union minister Kiren Rijiju will fight from Arunachal East and Mahesh Shamra Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida).

The BJP announced its candidates from many states, including Uttar Prdesh, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura.

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.

In Guwahati Lok Sabha constituency, BJP fields new candidate Queen Ojha to replace veteran leader Bijoya Chakravarty.

Kerala BJP chief Kummanam Rajasekharan to fight Shashi Tharoor in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.

Sujay Vikhe, son of former Maharashtra leader of oppn Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, to contest from Ahmednagar. Both father and son crossed over to BJP recently.

Voting to elect the 17th Lok Sabha (LS) is scheduled to be held over seven phases from April 11 to May 19 and the counting of votes will take place on May 23. 

Here the live updates on the BJP's first list for Lok Sabha polls: 

9:51 PM

BJP drops 4 Dalit MPs in Uttar Pradesh

BJP drops 4 Dalit MPs from Uttar Pradesh in its first candidate list for Lok Sabha elections 2019.

 

9:51 PM

BJP retains 2014 winners in Karnataka

BJP has retained in Karnataka all those MPs who won Lok Sabha elections in 2014.

 

8:29 PM

Amit Shah to contest from seat that LK Advani retained for 20 years

Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar constituency, which LK Advani retained for from 1998 to 2019

8:20 PM

Kerala BJP chief to contest against Shashi Tharoor

Kerala BJP chief Kummanam Rajasekharan to fight Shashi Tharoor in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency

8:13 PM

In Guwahati Lok Sabha constituency, BJP fields new candidate Queen Ojha to replace veteran leader Bijoya Chakravarthy

 

8:02 PM

Arjun Ram Meghwal to contest from Bikaner, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore from Jaipur

7:48 PM

Sujay Vikhe to contest from Ahmednagar

Sujay Vikhe, son of former Maharashtra leader of oppn Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, to contest from Ahmednagar. Both father and son crossed over to BJP recently

7:38 PM

General VK Singh to contest from Ghaziabad, Smriti Irani from Amethi

General VK Singh to contest from Ghaziabad, Smriti Irani from Amethi, Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur

7:34 PM

BJP announcing list of 182 candidates for Lok Sabha polls

Narendra Modi to contest from Varanasi, Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, Rajnath Singh from Lucknow

 

 

7:14 PM

BJP to name 250 candidates for Lok Sabha elections, say TV reports

BJP is going to name 250 candidates for Lok Sabha elections, say TV reports. Congress has already announced more than 130 candidates.

10:34 PM

Facebook, Twitter, TikTok to come up with code to prevent misuse of social media during polls

Social media intermediaries and the internet and mobile association Tuesday told the Election Commission that they would come up with a draft 'code of ethics' for the industry in the next 24 hours as part of a mechanism to prevent abuse of social media platforms during the Lok Sabha elections beginning April 11

 

9:36 PM

BJP drops all 10 sitting MPs from Chhattisgarh, to field fresh candidates

BJP General Secretary Anil Jain, says the party has decided to face the Lok Sabha elections with "new candidates and fresh energy" to make it victorious under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 

8:29 PM

Mamata lashes out at BJP for questioning her religion

"There are people who question my religion. I want to tell them that my religion is humanity and I do not need lectures from others about religion,"  says Mamata Banerjee at a programme in connection with the upcoming Holi festival.

 

 

"They (BJP) try to point fingers at me and say I do not allow puja to be conducted in Bengal. They should go and see how many 'mandir' (temples) have been constructed during the TMC regime," the Trinamool Congress supremo said.

8:09 PM

BJP Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting begins at the party headquarters

Delhi: BJP Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting begins at the party headquarters. Discussions will be held on seats in 10 states including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, and Odisha.

7:06 PM

CPI announces list of 7 candidates for the upcoming LS polls

Communist Party of India (CPI) announces list of 7 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal.