The BJP has fielded 14 sitting MPs, including four Union ministers, and dropped the only woman lawmaker from Rajasthan as it announced its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
In its first list, the BJP on Thursday, 21 March, announced candidates for 16 of the total 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.
Union ministers Arjun Ram Meghwal (Bikaner), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Jaipur rural), P P Chaudhary (Pali) and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (Jodhpur) have made it to this list.
The party also retained Nihal Chand (Ganganagar), Sumedhanand (Sikar), Ramcharan Bohra (Jaipur), Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria (Tonk-Sawaimadhopur), Devji Patel (Jalore), Arjun Lal Meena (Udaipur), C P Joshi (Chittorgarh), Subhash Chand Baheria (Bhilwara), Om Birla (Kota) and Dushyant Singh (Jhalawar-Baran).
Dushyant Singh is the son of former chief minister Vasundhara Raje.
Former MLA and member of erstwhile royal family of Jaipur Diya Kumari was also in the race for ticket from Jaipur or Tonk Sawaimadhopur but she was not given ticket.
BJP state president Madan Lal Saini said the party's target was to win all the constituencies under its mission 25.
In Ajmer, the party gave ticket to Bhagirath Bhagirath Chaudhary.
The Ajmer Lok Sabha seat lies vacant after Congress' Raghu Sharma, who had won the seat in the Lok Sabha bypoll held last year, was elected to the state legislative assembly in December.
The LokSabha elections will be held in two phases in the state where 13 constituencies will go to polls on 29 April and remaining 12 on 6 May.
According to the schedule, Tonk-Sawaimadhopur, Ajmer, Pali, Jodhpur, Barmer, Jalore, Udaipur, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Kota and Jhalawar-Baran will go to polls on 29 April.
The polling in Ganganagar, Bikaner, Churu, Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Jaipur rural, Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Karauli-Dholpur, Dausa and Nagaur will take place on 6 May.
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