Raksha Khadse, 36 (Raver)

Raksha, who married Eknath Khadse's son, is from a political family. Her father-in-law was a prominent BJP leader who eventually defected to the NCP due to party differences. Raksha won her maiden Lok Sabha election from Raver in 2014, and she was re-elected in 2019. Unlike her father-in-law, she stayed committed to the BJP. The party has nominated her for a third term in office.

Sudhir Mungantiwar, 62 (Chandrapur)

Mungantiwar, a veteran BJP leader and current state forest minister, was first hesitant to participate in the Lok Sabha elections, preferring to focus on state-level politics. However, he was encouraged to run for the Chandrapur seat the party lost to Congress in 2019. Mungantiwar began his political career with the party's student arm, the ABVP, and rose through the ranks.

Subhash Bhamre, 70 (Dhule)

Bhamre, who is an oncologist, has been elected twice as a Member of Parliament from the Dhule constituency located in the northern region of Maharashtra. Additionally, he served as the Minister of State for Defence between 2016 and 2019. He is currently running for re-election and hopes to secure a third term in office.

Kapil Patil, 63 (Bhiwandi)

Patil, a two-term MP from Bhiwandi Thane district, began his political career at the grassroots level. He oversaw the Thane District Council and Thane District Cooperative Bank, laying a solid political base. He began with the Kunbi Sena before joining the NCP and then the BJP in 2014. He won a Lok Sabha seat that same year, was reelected in 2019, and became a minister in 2021. He is presently preparing to run for a third term in a row.

Nitin Gadkari, 67 (Nagpur)

Gadkari, lauded for the development of road infrastructure since 2014, had not figured in BJP's first list of candidates. The Union Minister, who has been the former state and national chief for the party, is the man behind the Mumbai-Pune expressway and 55 flyovers in the city. He is allegedly close to RSS top brass and is seeking a third term.

Piyush Goyal, 59 (Mumbai North)

Goyal has a remarkable political history and is a Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Textiles. His mother, Chandrakanta Goyal was a BJP MLA while his father, Vedprakash Goyal was a well-liked leader of party. Goyal was an investment banker before to going into politics. As a member of Modi's team prior to the 2014 elections, he was instrumental in securing support of corporate entities. Goyal's election to the Lok Sabha will be his first.

Murlidhar Mohol, 50 (Pune)

Mohol, a four-time Pune corporator, is the BJP's most visible Maratha representative in the city. From 2019 until 2022, he served as the chairman of the PMC standing committee and the mayor of Pune. During his tenure, Mohol spearheaded various projects in Pune, including the Metro rail, riverside development, and revitalization initiatives. These initiatives should help his chances in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, particularly in Pune, which has generally been a BJP bastion since 2014.

Sudhakar Shrangare, 61 (Latur)

Shrangare, a businessman, was fielded by the BJP as its candidate in 2019 for the first time. He now has been renominated from the constituency and if elected, this will be his second term as Latur's MP.

Sujay Vikhe Patil, 42 (Ahmednagar)

Sujay Vikhe Patil, a member of the family of legendary Congress leader Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, received a Lok Sabha seat after joining the BJP in 2019. Vikhe Patil, who is a doctor by profession, won despite fierce competition. His Ahmednagar opponents have sworn to work together to beat him in the next round.

Smita Wagh, 55 (Jalgaon)

Smita Wagh, a BIP worker, began her political career with the ABVP. Between 2015 and 2020, Wagh, a Gujjar, served as the district council president and a member of the legislative council. In 2019, the party dropped her as its candidate for the LS polls just hours before the nomination filing deadline, instead choosing Unmesh Patil.

Sanjaykaka Patil, 59 (Sangli)

Patil, a two-term Lok Sabha lawmaker from Sangli, began his political career with the Congress Party. Prior to his election to the Lok Sabha, he served as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, representing the NCP. However, he joined the BJP before the 2014 elections.

Raosaheb Danve, 68 (Jalna)

Danve, who is currently the Union Minister of State for Railways and Coal, had previously represented the Jalna constituency in the Lok Sabha for five consecutive terms. A trusted confidant of the late Gopinath Munde, Danve, after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he was reinstalled as a minister. Danve, from central Maharashtra, is a well-known Maratha leader. Manoj Jarange-Patil, a Maratha leader, raised awareness of his constituency.

Ramdas Tadas, 71 (Wardha)

Ramdas Tadas, a former wrestler, first entered politics as a Wardha district councillor. He first won the Lok Sabha in 2014 and was re-elected as a BJP contender in 2019. The party has renominated him, a prominent leader in the Teli community.

Ranjitsinh Naik-Nimbalkar, 47 (Madha)

Ranjitsinh Naik-Nimbalkar, a former Congressman, was elected Lok Sabha MP from Madha in 2019 after joining the BJP. The BJP fielded him to corner the Pawar family, but he may face opposition within the party this time and would need to fight extra hard to overcome it.

Anup Sanjay Dhotre, 30 (Akola)

Surprisingly, BJP's national leadership nominated Anup, son of sitting MP Sanjay Dhotre, as Lok Sabha candidate from Akola. Anup is scheduled to compete against Prakash Ambedkar of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi in the forthcoming election. Anup's father, a former Union minister and four-term Lok Sabha member, is in ill health.

Pankaja Munde, 44 (Beed)

Pankaja Munde, the late Gopinath Munde's daughter and a former minister in Devendra Fadnavis' BJP-Shiv Sena cabinet, has been offered another shot in politics by the BJP. She had been dissatisfied with the party since 2019 but hoped to be nominated to the state legislative council after losing the 2019 assembly election. However, that did not happen. Eventually, she agreed to compete against Beed rather than her sister Pritam.

Mihir Kotecha, 49 (Mumbai North East)

Kotecha was elected as an MLA from the Mulund constituency. He is believed to be close to Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and has been collecting donations for the state BJP as its treasurer. He is now contesting for the Lok Sabha seat instead of current MP Manoj Kotak, who was denied another term by the party.

Heena Gavit, 36 (Nandurbar)

Heena Gavit, the daughter of BJP legislator and tribal leader Vijay Gavit, became the youngest member when she defeated Manikrao Gavit, a nine-time Congress MP from the Nandurbar constituency in north Maharashtra. She won again in 2019 and is now seeking a third term.

Prataprao Chikhalikar, 63 (Nanded)

Chikhalikar rose to prominence after defeating Ashok Chavan, the state Congress president, from the constituency in 2019. He began his political career in the Congress, then became an independent MLA before running as a Shiv Sena candidate. In 2019, he joined the BJP to participate in the Lok Sabha election. Despite resistance from Chavan, who recently joined the BJP, the party has decided to nominate him again.

Bharati Pawar, 45 (Dindori)

Bharati Pawar, an eight-time MLA's daughter-in-law, contested in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on an NCP ticket but lost. In 2019, she won the election as a BIP candidate and became a union minister in 2021. She has been renominated by the party.