New Delhi: Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut and Arun Govil were contesting the Lok Sabha elections from BJP. The BJP central election committee in its fifth list released these two actors name as their party MP candidates.

Kangana Ranaut will be contesting from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi – her hometown and as well as Arun Govil is contesting from Meerut.

Kangana in her tweet said that my beloved Bharat and BJP  has always had my unconditional support, today the national leadership of BJP has announced me as their Lok Sabha candidate from my birth place Himachal Pradesh, Mandi (constituency) I abide by the high command’s decision on contesting Lok Sabha polls.

Arun Govil recently joined the BJP along with Anuradha Paudwal. He is replacing BJP MP Rajendra Agrawal in the Meerut contest. Agarwal had been elected as a Member of Parliament from the Meerut-Hapur constituency three times since 2009.

The BJP named 111 more candidates for the Lok Sabha polls this evening. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will contest from Sambalpur and the BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra from Puri. Union Ministers Ashwini Kumar Choubey and VK Singh, and MP Varun Gandhi have been dropped.

Maneka Gandhi has been fielded from Sultanpur, while Uttar Pradesh Minister Jitin Prasada has replaced Varun Gandhi in Pilibhit. Sita Soren, who recently switched from the JMM to BJP, will fight from Dumka (Jharkhand).