New Delhi, March 23 -- The BJP on Saturday declared the names of 36 candidates for the coming Lok Sabha polls with the party deciding to field its spokesman Sambit Patra from the Puri parliamentary constituency in Odisha.
The list was declared after a marathon meeting of the Central Election Committee presided over by Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and other senior BJP leader.
The 33 candidates comprise 23 from Andhra Pradesh, six from Maharashtra, five from Odisha and one each from Meghalaya and Assam.
It also released the list of candidates for 51 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh and 22 Assembly seats in Odisha.
In Maharashtra, the party has fielded Smit...