BJP, Congress first list of candidates for Lok Sabha polls out: Who's contesting whom?
BJP vs Congress first list for Lok Sabha polls 2024: It's Shashi Tharoor Vs Rajeev Chandrasekhar in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram, K Muraleedharan Vs Suresh Gopi in Thrissur and Anto Antony Vs Anil K Antony in Pathanamthitta.
The Congress announced its first list of 39 candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on Friday. Last week, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared candidates for 195 of the total 543 Lok Sabha seats. The first list of both the party included names of some big-wigs and party stalwarts.
The Congress' first list released on Friday includes names of Rahul Gandhi, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal, DK Suresh and Shashi Tharoor.
Out of the total 39 Congress candidates, 15 were from Kerala, seven from Karnataka, six from Chhattisgarh, four from Telangana, two from Meghalaya and one each from Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim and Lakshwadeep.
Meanwhile, the BJP's first list released on March 2 had names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of India Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani.
There are seats where both the Congress and the BJP have announced candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
BJP VS Congress first list: Here's a look at who will contest against whom:
| S No. | Lok Sabha constituency | BJP candidate | Congress candidate |
| 1 | Thiruvananthapuram | Rajeev Chandrasekhar | Shashi Tharoor |
| 2 | Champa | Kamlesh Jangde | Shivkumar Dahariya Jangir |
| 3 | Korba | Saroj Pandey | Jyotsana Mahant |
| 4 | Rajnandgaon | Santosh Pandey | Bhupesh Baghel |
| 5 | Durg | Vijay Baghel | Rajendra Sahu |
| 6 | Raipur | Brijmohan Agarwal | Vikas Upadhayay |
| 7 | Mahasamund | Roop Kumari Choudhary | Tamradhwaj Sahu |
| 8 | Kasaragod | ML Ashwini | Rajmohan Unnithan |
| 9 | Kannur | C Raghunath | K Sudhakaran |
| 10 | Vadakara | Prafulla Krishna | Shafi Parambil |
| 11 | Kozhikode | MT Ramesh | MK Raghavan |
| 12 | Palakkad | C Krishnakumar | VK Sreekandan |
| 13 | Thrissur | Suresh Gopi | K Muraleedharan |
| 14 | Alappuzha | Sobha Surendran | KC Venugopal |
| 15 | Attingal | V Muraleedharan | Adoor Prakash |
| 16 | Pathanamthitta | Anil K Antony | Anto Antony |
| 17 | Zahirabad | BB Patil | Suresh Kumar Shetkar |
| 18 | Tripura West | Biplab Kumar Deb | Ashish Kumar Saha |
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