List of BJP candidates for Lok Sabha: Varun Gandhi will be replaced in Pilibhit by UP minister Jitin Prasada, while Maneka Gandhi will run from Sultanpur.
List of BJP candidates for Lok Sabha: On Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party presented a further 111 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Maneka Gandhi, a former union minister, will continue to run from Sultanpur, while Jitin Prasada, a minister from Uttar Pradesh, has taken Varun Gandhi's seat in the Pilibhit constituency.
Sanjay Gandhi's son Varun has defeated Pilibhit for the first time in 2009. Previously, Maneka Gandhi, his mother, held the position. However, in 2014, he was moved to Sultanpur, where Maneka Gandhi was fielded.
After being moved to Pilibhit once more in 2019, Varun Gandhi was able to win this seat and return for a third term in the Lok Sabha.
Gandhi's criticism of his own administration over the protests by farmers made headlines.
BJP's selection of five candidates for the Lok Sabha election: Key differences
• Out of the 543 members of the House, the ruling party has now finalized 398 nominees for the Lok Sabha elections, with the exception of four contentious withdrawals.
• Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, who is well-known for her outspoken support of the BJP, will run from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, while veteran actor Arun Govil, who is best known for playing Lord Ram in the film "Ramayan," will run from Meerut.
• Sita Soren, the sister-in-law of former chief minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren, quits the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha to run as a candidate for the BJP from Dumka.
• Jagadish Shettar, a former chief minister of Karnataka who briefly defected to the Congress before joining the BJP again, will run from Belgaum.
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