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Major faces in UP
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh: Lucknow
MP Hema Malini: Mathura
Union Minister Smriti Irani: Amethi
Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Fatehpur12 seats in Kerala
Rajeev Chandrasekhar: Thiruvananthapuram
Anil Antony: Pathanamthitta
V Muraleedharan: Attingal
Sobha Surendran: Alappuzha
C Raghunath: Kannur
M L Aswini: Kasargod
Suresh Gopi: Trissur
Praphul Krishna: Vatakara
C Krishnakumar: Palakkad
M T Ramesh: Kozhikode
Abdul Salam: Malappuram
Nivedita Subramanian: Ponani
Big names in Rajasthan
Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal: Bikaner
Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav: Alwar
Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Jodhpur
Union Minister Kailash Choudhary: Barmer
Rajasthan BJP President CP Joshi: Chittorgarh
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla: Kota
5 Delhi seats
Shivraj Singh Chouhan to contest from Vidisha, MP
Porbandar, Gujarat: Mansukh Mandaviya
Khunti, Jharkhand: Arjun Munda
Pathanamthitta, Kerala: Anil Antony
Attingal, Kerala: V Muraleedharan
Thrissur, Kerala: Suresh Gopi
Guna, MP: Jyotariditya Scindia
Amit Shah to contest Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Rajeev Chandrashekhar to contest Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Kiren Rijiju to contest Arunachal Pradesh West
State-wise break-up
BJP strikes balance
BJP's first list of 195 candidates contains 34 central and state ministers, one former chief minister, 28 women, 47 youth, 27 SC, 18 ST, 57 OBC.