Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP Releases List Of 9 Candidates Including Former Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan

With the name of nine more candidates, the BJP has so far announced names of around 275 candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

The Bharatiya Janata Party today released its another list of candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. This is the BJP's third list for the Parliamentary polls. The list includes name of former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan who resigned from the post yesterday. With this, the BJP has fielded around 275 candidates for the polls so far. All the candidates are from Tamil Nadu, a state where the BJP has adopted aggressive approach to woo the voters.

BJP releases its third list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

K Annamalai to contest from Coimbatore, Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South and L. Murugan from Nilgiris. pic.twitter.com/bJLUyK8Og1

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The list has following names:

Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan- Chennai South

Vinoj P. Selvam- Chennai Central

Dr. A.C. Shanmugam- Vellore

C. Narasimhan- Krishnagiri

Dr. L. Murugan- Nilgiris (SC)

K. Annamalai- Coimbatore

T.R. Paarivendhar- Perambalur

Nainar Nagendran- Thoothukkudi

Pon. Radhakrishnan- Kanniyakumari

With this, the BJP named its candidates for nine Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu, fielding former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South and party state unit chief K Annamalai from the Coimbatore Parliamentary seat. The party fielded former DMK leader and sitting MP T R Paarivendhar and Union Minister L Murugan from Perambalur and Nilgiris respectively.

Former Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan will contest from the Kanniyakumari seat. Vinoj P Selvam will contest from Chennai Central, A C Shanmugam from Vellore, C Narasimhan from Krishnagiri, and Nainar Nagendran from Thoothukkudi, the party said.

Polling in the state's 39 Lok Sabha seats will be held in the first phase on April 19. The BJP did not win a single seat from Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.