The BJP Saturday announced the names of its 64 more candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, including party's senior leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna in Bihar and national spokesperson Sambit Patra from Puri in Odisha.
With these 64 names, the party has announced the name of its 249 candidates so far for the parliamentary polls which will held in seven phases beginning from 11 April and ending on 19 May. The counting will take place on 23 May.
The names for the first two phases has been cleared by the BJP's central election committee (CEC), headed by its chief Amit Shah and including Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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