The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released its second list of 72 candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The list includes Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal among the 20 candidates announced from Maharashtra. While Nitin Gadkari will contest from Nagpur. Piyush Goyal has been fielded from Mumbai North for his Lok Sabha debut.
The first list of the BJP which named Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani did not name Nitin Gadkari. As it set tongues wagging whether the BJP was sidelining Nitin Gadkari, Uddhav Thackeray asked Nitin Gadkari to leave the BJP and join his camp if the BJP was insulting him. Nitin Gadkari said the invitation was immature and ridiculous and added that BJP had a process to finalise the names.
1) Chandrapur- Sudhir Mungantiwar
2) Raver – Raksha Khadse
3) Jalna- Raosaheb Danve
4) Bead – Pankaja Munde
5) Pune- Muralidhar Mohol
6) Sangli – Sanjay Kaka Patil
7) Madha- Ranjit Nimbalkar
8) Dhule – Subhash Bhamre
9) North Mumbai- Piyush Goyal
10) North East- Mihir Kotcha
11) Nanded- Prataprao Chikhlikar
12) Ahmednagar- Sujay Vikhe Patil
13) Latur- Sudhakar Shringare
14) Jalgaon- Smita Wagh
15) Dindori- Bharti Pawar
16) Bhiwandi- Kapil Patil
17) Wardha – Ramdas Tadas
18) Nagpur- Nitin Gadkari
19) Akola- Anup Dhotre
20) Nandurbar- Dr. Hina village