Goyal's Lok Sabha debut, shake-up in Karnataka: 10 takeaways from BJP's 2nd list

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Union ministers Sadananda Gowda, Ramesh Pokhriyal were dropped from their seats. 31-year-old king ' Yaduveer Wadiyar is a surprise entry from Mysuru...

Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Manohar Lal Khattar and Anurag Thakur were the four names that stood out of the list of 72 candidates the BJP announced on Wednesday for the Lok Sabha election 2024..

BJP 2nd list of candidates: Here are top 10 major takeawaysThree former CMs: Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana), Basavaraj Bommai (Karnataka) and Trivendra Singh Rawat are the three former chief ministers named in the 2nd list..

Khattar will be contesting from Karnal, Bommai from Haveri and Rawat from Hardwar.. 2. Big names in Maharashtra: Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur) and Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North) are the major candidates fielded from Maharashtra where BJP will be contesting the election in alliance with Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's NCP. ..

"From today, our chief minister will look after the Karnal assembly constituency," he said hours before his name was announced in BJP's 2nd list of candidates for Lok Sabha election 2024..

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