Candidates  

The BJP will separately field its candidate for Tura and Shillong seats in Meghalaya. A top leader of the saffron party in Meghalaya said that the party has prepared a list of four probable candidates for both Tura and Shillong constituencies

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has announced the list of party candidates for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats of the state. Ten sitting MPs have been dropped this time. They include the party’s state president Subrata Bakshi, actress Sandhya Roy and noted educationist Prof Sugata Basu

Candidates have to submit clippings of their declaration published in papers and parties have to submit details about the number of such candidates in a state

Actor-politician Pawan Kalyan has finalised the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The Janasena leader has not yet revealed the names of the 41 candidates.

The Congress leaders demanded that their coalition partner JD(S) field other candidates from Mandya and not to give priority to Nikhil Kumaraswamy just because he is the son of the chief minister.

The first list of a party normally shows the names of those whose winnability is beyond doubt. The fact that the Congress included infamous Imran Masood along with the likes of Rahul and Sonia Gandhi — whose repeat nomination from Rae Bareli suggests she is not retiring soon — has surprised many

The decision to blood HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy from Mandya has given rise to a lot of rebellion within the party circles. Several youngsters have questioned the top honchos of the party as to why Nikhil was chosen, when there are other worthy candidates
 

Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam and chief minister K Palaniswami urged the interested candidates to get the applications from the AIADMK headquarters between February 4 and 10 for Rs 25,000.

Thota Chandrasekhar will contest from Guntur and former Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar from Tenali constituency.

If sources are to be believed, then Congress is all set to field a Hindu-Muslim candidate to take on BJP's sitting MP PC Mohan. Dinesh Gundu Rao's Muslim wife Tabu Gundu Rao may be pitted by the Congress against the BJP in Bengaluru Central.