BJP’s first list of candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2019: Modi from Varanasi, Amit Shah from Gandhinagar
On 21 March 2019 the Bharatiya Janata Party announced its first list of 184 candidates for the Lok Sabha election, covering 20 states and union territories.
Who was named
- Narendra Modi was renominated from Varanasi.
- Party president Amit Shah was named for Gandhinagar, the seat held for decades by L. K. Advani, who was not renominated.
- Home Minister Rajnath Singh was renominated from Lucknow, and Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur.
- Other names included General V. K. Singh for Ghaziabad, D. V. Sadananda Gowda for Bangalore North and Dushyant Singh for Jhalawar-Baran.
The list was the first of several the party released in the weeks that followed.
What happened next
All of the leaders named above won their seats. The BJP took 303 seats nationally, and Narendra Modi began his second term on 30 May 2019, with Amit Shah as Home Minister and Rajnath Singh moving to Defence. In 2024, Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari were all re-elected from the same constituencies.
See also: every current member of the Lok Sabha.
Originally published on 22 March 2019. Rewritten on 9 October 2026, with the background and what happened next added.
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