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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi, the constituency he currently represents, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced on Saturday as it released its first list of candidates for this summers national elections.e)..
In the list of 195 candidates, the BJP named 34 Union ministers and ministers of state, including home minister Amit Shah, who will return to his constituency of Gandhinagar in Gujarat, defence minister Rajnath Singh who will contest from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, and women and child development minister Smriti Irani who will contest from Amethi, UP, where she defeated senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in 2019..
The names of 195 candidates have been finalised The party has announced the list keeping all communities in focus, said BJP leader Vinod Tawde, addressing the media in Delhi..
. To be sure, the 18 states and UTs where the BJP has announced 195 candidates had 304 seats in total in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections (when Dadra and Nagar Haveli had not been merged with Daman and Diu)..
This means that the overall seat share of the BJP and NDA in these 18 states and UTs was 69% and 71% in 2019 compared to 77% and 78% seat share in just the 195 seats where candidates were announced Saturday..
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