New Delhi, April 11 -- After days of speculation, the BJP on Wednesday released its 10th list of candidates dropping sitting MPs Kirron Kher, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Virendra Singh and fielded former Union Minister Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia, Neeraj Shekhar, son of former Prime Minister Chandrasekhar for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The BJP announced the candidates for nine Lok Sabha constituencies - seven in Uttar Pradesh, one in West Bengal and Chandigarh's lone seat. Of them, eight are new faces.

Ahluwalia's name was among the nine in the tenth Lok Sabha candidates list announced by the BJP on Wednesday, from his home town in Asansol the country's oldest coalfields on the Bengal-Jharkhand border, taking on Trinamool Congress' lead...