AAP fields actor Jaaved Jaaferi against Rajnath Singh in Lucknow

New Delhi: Bollywood actor Jaaved Jaaferi will be contesting against Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh from Lucknow seat in Uttar Pradesh. He will be contesting on a Aam Aadmi Party ticket.

The AAP has also fielded Riturajbhai Mehta against BJP veteran LK Advani from Gandhinagar seat in Gujarat.

The AAP released 13th list of 22 Lok Sabha candidates on Monday and named candidates from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.

Here is the list of the candidates:

Bihar

Prof. Yogendra Mahto: Bhagalpur

Dr Jamshed A. Quiser: Begusarai

Dr Banwari Lal: Gopalganj

Sudhir Paswan: Hajipur

Major Parmeshwar Jha: Supaul

Suresh Choudhary: Ujiarpur

Anwar Alam: Madhepura

Chhattisgarh

Amarnath Pandey: Korba

Gujarat

Rajendra Jhala: Jamnagar

Riturajbhai Maheta: Gandhinagar

Thakorbhai Manekbhai Gamit: Bardoli

Himachal Pradesh

Jai Chand Thakur: Mandi

Jharkhand

Ramakant Verma: Dhanbad

Sahdeo Soren: Dumka

Jai Shankar Jha: Godda

Rajasthan

Dr Sanjeet Dhanka: Dausa

Tamil Nadu

SAN Vasigaran: Sriperumbudur

S Palanirajan: Thanjavur

R Valayapathi: Karur

S Srinivason: Chennai North

Thamil Arima: Sivaganga

Uttar Pradesh

Jaaved Jaaferi: Lucknow