Lok Sabha polls: 4 Bhojpuri stars in BJP's first candidate list

BJP's first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections features four Bhojpuri stars - Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kishan, Dinesh Lal Yadav alias Nirahua and Pawan Singh.

Singer-actor Tiwari, two-term MP from East Delhi will contest the seat for the third time.

Actor-turned-politician Ravi Kishan has been fielded from the Gorakhpur seat again, while Azamgarh MP Nirahua will also fight to retain his seat.

Actor-singer Pawan Singh, popularly known as Power Star of Bhojpuri Industry will contest West Bengal's Asansol seat.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi for a third time. Thirty-four Union ministers, including heavyweights like Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh will contest from their current Gandhinagar and Lucknow seats respectively.

The BJP replaced as many as 33 sitting MPs with new faces in its first list of 195 candidates.

Jyotiraditya Scindia will contest from Guna (Madhya Pradesh), Sarbananda Sonowal from Dibrugarh (Assam), Bhupender Yadav from Alwar (Rajasthan), Rajeev Chandrashekhar from Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), V Muraleedharan from Attingal (Kerala) Parshottam Rupala from Rajkot (Gujarat) and Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar (Gujarat).

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