By IANS,
New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial aspirant L.K.Advani is among the six candidates whose names were announced Thursday for contesting the Lok Sabha elections that are due in 2009.
Advani, a sitting MP from Gandhinagar in Gujarat, will once again contest from there.
Senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu made the announcement after a meeting of the party’s central election commission chaired by BJP president Rajnath Singh.
Announcing the first list of its candidates, Naidu said the others in the fray are cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Siddhu, who will re-contest from Amritsar.
Actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna will also re-contest from Gurdaspur in Punjab.
The others are Sripad Naik, who will contest from Panaji in North Goa and Lt. Gen. (retired) T.P.S Rawat from Pauri-Garhwal in Uttarakhand.
Himachal Pradesh chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal’s son Anurag Thakur will contest from Hamirpur.