BJP’s 2nd list of candidates for Lok Sabha: Khattar from Karnal, Nitin Gadkari retains Nagpur.

BJP’s 2nd list of candidates contains big names including former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Union minister Nitin Gadkari.The BJP on Wednesday released the second list of 72 candidates which featured big names like Manohar Lal Khattar, Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Thakur, Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), and Tejasvi Surya among others. Manohar Lal Khattar will be contesting from Karnal, the announcement did not come as a surprise as Khattar resigned from the post of Haryana chief minister signalling his Lok Sabha innings. Union minister Nitin Gadkari retains his Nagpur seat after there was a little uncertainly as his name did not feature in the first list of the candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha election.The remarkable mentions in the 2nd list are Ashok Tanwar (Sirsa), Manohar Lal Khattar (Karnal), Chaudhary Dharambir Singh (Bhiwani-Mahendragarh), Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav (Gurgaon), Anurag Singh Thakur (Hamirpur), Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad), BY Raghavendra (Shimoga), Basavaraj Bommai (Haveri) Shobha Karandlaje (Bangalore North), Tejasvi Surya (Bangalore South), Bharati Pravin Pawar (Dindori), Pankaja Munde (Beed), DK Aruna (Mahbubnagar), Trivendra Singh Rawat (Hardwar), Anil Baluni (Garhwal) Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North).