Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, Smriti Irani from Amethi: Check BJP's first list

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced its first list of candidates for the April-May Lok Sabha elections. The ruling party has fielded as many as 195 candidates on the key constituencies, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah from Gujarat's Gandhinagar. 

BJP's first list included the names of 34 central ministers and two former chief ministers. Other heavyweights on the list include Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha, Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna, Smriti Irani from Amethi and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Porbandar seat.

Here's the full list of candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party:

Varanasi: Narendra Modi
Gandhinagar: Amit Shah
Amethi: Smriti Irani
Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Bishnu Pada Ray
Arunachal West : Kiren Rijiju
Arunachal East: Tapir Gao
 Karimganj (SC): Kripanath Mallah
Silchar: Parimal Suklabaidya
Autonomous District: Amar Sing Tisso
Gauhati: Bijuli Kalita Medhi
Mangaldoi: Dilip Saikia
Tezpur:  Ranjit Dutta
Nowgong:Suresh Bora
Kaliabor: Kamakhaya Prasad Tasa
Jorhat : Topon Kumar Gogai
Dibrugarh:  Sarbananda Sonowal
Lakhimpur: Pradhan Baruah 
Sarguja (ST):  Chintamani Maharaj
Raigarh (ST): Radheshyam Rathia 
Janjgir-Champa (SC):  Kamlesh Jangde
Korba: Saroj Pandey 
Bilaspur: Tokhan Sahu
Rajnandgaon: Santosh Pandey 
Durg: Vijay Baghel 
Raipur: Brijmohan Agarwal
Mahasamund: Roop Kumari Choudhary 
Bastar (ST): Mahesh Kashyap
Kanker - Bhoraj Nag
Daman & Diu: Lalubhai Patel
Chandni Chawk: Praveen Khandelwal 
Northeast Delhi: Manoj Tiwari
New Delhi: Bansuri Swaraj
West Delhi: Kamaljeet Sehrawat
South Delhi: Ramvir Singh Bhiduri
North Goa: Shripad Yesso Naik
Kachchh: Vinodbhai Lakshmashi Chavda
Banaskantha: Rekhaben Hitestbhai Chaudhary
Patan: Bharatsinhji Dabhi
Ahmedabad West: Dineshbhai Kodarbhai Makwana
Rajkot: Parshottam Rupala
Porbandar: Mansukh Mandaviya
Jamnagar: Poonamben Maadam
Anand: Miteshbhai Rameshbhai Patel
Kheda: Devusinh Chauhan
Panchmahal: Rajpalsinh Mehendrasinh Jadhav
Dahod: Jasvantsinh Bhabhor
Bharuch: Mansukhbhai Vasava
Bardoli: Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava
Navasari: CR Patil
Udhampur: Jitendra Singh
Jammu: Jugal Kishore Sharma
Rajmahal (ST): Tala Marandi 
Dumka (ST): Sunil Soren 
Godda: Nishikant Dubey 
Kodarma:  Annapurna Devi
Ranchi: Sanjay Seth
Jamshedpur: Vidhyut Baran Mahato 
Singhbhum (ST): Geeta Koda 
Khunti (ST): Arjun Munda 
Lohardaga (ST):  Samir Oraon
Palamau (SC): Vishnu Dayal Ram 
Hazaribagh: Manish Jaiswal 
Kasaragod: M.L. Ashwini
 Kannur: C. Raghunath
Vadakara: Prafulla Krishna
Kozhikode: MT Ramesh
Malappuram: Abdul Salam 
Ponnani: Niveditha Subramanian 
Palakkad: C. Krishnakumar
Thrissur: Suresh Gopi
Alappuzha: Shobha Surendran
Pathanamthitta: Anil K. Antony
Attingal: V. Muraleedharan 
Thiruvananthapuram: Rajiv Chandrasekhar
Morena: Shivmangal Singh Tomar
Bhind (SC): Sandhya Rai
Gwalior: Bharat Singh Kushwaha 
Guna: Jyotiraditya Scindia 
Sagar: Lata Wankhede 
Tikamgarh (SC): Virendra Khatik
Damoh: Rahul Lodhi
Khajuraho: V.D. Sharma 
Satna:  Ganesh Singh
Rewa: Janardan Mishra 
Sidhi: Rajesh Mishra 
Shahdol (ST): Himadri Singh
Jabalpur: Ashish Dubey  
Mandla (ST): Faggan Singh Kulaste  
Hoshangabad: Darshan Singh Choudhary 
Vidisha: Shivraj Singh Chouhan 
Bhopal: Alok Sharma 
Rajgarh: Rodmal Nagar 
Dewas (SC): Mahendra Singh Solanki 
Mandsour: Sudhir Gupta 
Ratlam (ST): Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan 
Khargone (ST): Gajendra Patel 
Khandwa: Gyaneshwar Patil 
Betul (ST): Durga Das Uikey 
Bikaner (SC): Arjun Ram Meghwal 
Churu: Devendra Jhajharia 
Sikar: Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati
Alwar: Bhupender Yadav
Bharatpur: Ramswaroop Koli
Nagaur: Jyoti Mirdha
Pali: PP Chaudhary
Jodhpur: Gajendra Singh Sikhawat
Barmer: Kailash Choudhary
Jalore: Lumbaram Choudhary
Udaipur: Mannalal Rawat
Banswara: Mahendra Malviya
Chittorgarh: CP Joshi
Kota: Om Birla
Jhalawar-Baran: Dushyant Singh
Karimnagar: Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Nizamabad: Arvind Dharmapuri
Zahirabad: BB Patil
Malkajgiri: Etela Rajender
Secundarabad: G Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad: Madhavi Latha
Chelvella: Konda Vishweshwar Reddy
Nagarkurnool: P Bharat
Bhongir: Boora Narsaiah Goud
Tripura West: Biplab Kumar Deb
Tehri Garhwal: Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
Almora: Ajay Tamta
Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar: Ajay Bhatt
Kairana: Pradeep Kumar
Muzaffarnagar: Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Nagina: Om Kumar
Rampur: Ghanshayam Lodhi
Sambhal: Parameshvar Lal Saini
Amroha: Kanwar Singh Tanwar
Gautam Buddh Nagar: Mahesh Sharma
Bulandshahr: Bhola Singh
Mathura: Hema Malini
Agra: Satyapal Singh Baghel
Fatehpur Sikri: Raj Kumar Chahar
Etah: Rajveer Singh
Aonla: Dharmendra Kashyap
Shahjahanpur: Arun Kumar Sagar
Kheri: Ajay Mishra Teni
Dhauraha: Rekha Verma
Sitapur: Rajesh Verma
Hardoi: Jai Prakash Rawat
Misrikh: Ashok Kumar Rawat
Unnao: Sakshi Maharaj
Mohanlalganj: Kaushal Kishore
Lucknow: Rajnath Singh
Pratapgarh: Sangam Lal Gupta
Farrukhabad: Mukesh Rajput
Etawah: Ram Shankar Katheria
Kannauj: Subrat Pathak
Akbarpur: Devendra Singh 'Bhole'
Jalaun: Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
Jhansi: Anurag Sharma
Hamirpur: Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel
Banda: RK Singh Patel
Fatehpur: Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
Barabanki: Upendra Singh Rawat
Faizbad: Lallu Singh
Ambedkar Nagar: Ritesh Pandey
Shrawasti: Saket Mishra
Gonda: Kirti Vardhan Singh
Domariyaganj: Jagdambika Pal
Basti: Harish Dwivedi
Sant Kabir Nagar: Praveen Kumar Nishad
Maharajganj: Pankaj Choudhary
Gorakhpur: Ravi Kishan
Kushi Nagar: Vijay Kumar Dubey
Bansgaon: Kamlesh Paswan
Lalganj: Neelam Sonkar
Azamgarh: Dinesh Yadav 'Nirahua'
Salempur: Ravindra Kushwaha
Jaunpur: Kripashankar Singh
Chandauli: Mahendra Nath Pandey
Cooch Behar: Nitish Pramanik
Alipurduars: Manoj Tigga
Balurghat: Sukanta Majumdar
Maldaha Uttar: Khagen Murmu
Maldaha Dakshin: Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury
Baharampur: Nirmal Kumar Saha
Murshidabad: Gauri Shankar Ghosh
Ranaghat: Jagannath Sarkar
Bangaon: Shantanu Thakur
Joynagar: Ashok Kandari
Jadavpur: Anirban Ganguly
Howrah: Rathin Chakraborty
Hoogly: Lock Chatterjee
Kanthi: Soumendu Adhikari
Ghatal: Hirnamay Chattopadhyay
Purulia: Jyotirmay Singh Mahato
Bankura: Subhash Sarkar
Bishnupur: Soumitra Khan
Asansol: Pawan Singh
Bolpur: Priya Saha