BJP 2nd list: Raghunandhan to contest from Medak, DK Aruna from Mahbubnagar

Telangana: BJP in its second list on Wednesday announced 72 candidates candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. The list has six candidates from Telangana.

BJPs comes even before the Election Commission has notified the dates for the Lok Sabha polls.

Telangana list:

Adilabad - Godam Nagesh

Peddapalle- Gomasa Srinivas

Medak- M Raghunandan Rao

Mahbubnagar - D K Aruna

Nalgonda- Saida Reddy

Mahabubabad- Azmeera Seetaram Naik.

Former BRS leaders -- Seetaram Naik, Shanampudi Saidireddy and Godam Nagesh and Congress leader Gomasa Srinivas joined BJP on March 10.

In the first list are:

Nizamabad - Arvind Dharmapuri

Malkajgiri- Eatala Rajender

Chevella - Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Bhuvanagiri - Boora Narsaiah Goud

Zaheerabad - Bibi Patil

Nagar Kurnool - Potuganti Bharat Prasad

Hyderabad - Dr. Madhavilatha

Secunderabad- G Kishen Reddy

Union Minister Anurag Thakur to contest from Hamirpur, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur and former Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar from Karnal.

Last week, the BJP had released its first list of 195 candidates for the general elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be contesting from Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi seat while home minister Amit Shah will fight from Gujarat's Gandhinagar.

BJP announced candidates for 9 seats from Telangana, 51 from Uttar Pradesh, 20 from West Bengal, 24 from Madhya Pradesh, 15 each from Gujarat and Rajasthan, 12 from Kerala, , 11 from Assam, 11 each from Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, 5 from Delhi, 2 from Jammu and Kashmir, 3 from Uttarakhand, 2 from Arunachal Pradesh and 1 each from Goa, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar and Daman & Diu.