BJP replaces Varun Gandhi with Jitin Prasad in Pilibhit, retains Maneka Gandhi in Sultanpur

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced its fifth list of 111 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, dropping Varun Gandhi from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency and retaining his mother, Maneka Gandhi...

The BJP dropped Varun Gandhi from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh and allotted the seat to former Congress leader Jitin Prasada...

Tapas Roy is the candidate for Kolkata Uttar, Dilip Ghosh for Bardhaman-Durgapur, and Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who recently resigned as a judge of the Calcutta High Court, will contest from Tamluk...

The party's popular spokesperson Sambit Patra will again contest from Odisha's Puri seat, which he lost in the previous Lok Sabha polls...

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