Among the southern states, the BJP has announced candidates for 12 out of 20 seats from Kerala and nine of the 17 seats from Telangana.
BJP general secretary announcing LS polls candidates. (Screengrab)
The BJP on Saturday, 2 March, fielded Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar from Thiruvananthapuram seat in Kerala against sitting Congress MP, Shashi Tharoor. Eatala Rajender is its candidate from Telangana’s Malkajgiri. Nationally, it named 195 candidates, including 12 from Kerala and nine from Telangana. The other southern states — Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh — did not figure in the first list.