New delhi, March 14 -- Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Anurag Singh Thakur, along with three former Chief Ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat, and Basavaraj Bommai, and BJP media chief Anil Baluni, made it to the second list released by the BJP on Wednesday.

The list includes 72 candidates from 11 States for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Of the 72 seats for which the party announced its candidates, 20 each are from Maharashtra and Karnataka, seven from Gujarat, six each from Haryana and Telangana, five from Madhya Pradesh, two each from Delhi, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, and one each from Tripura, and Dadar & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu.

With the new list, 267 candidates have been announced by th...