Thiruvananthapuram: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decided to field its state president, K Surendran, for the Wayanad seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. 

With this, the BJP leader will face off against Congress's Rahul Gandhi and CPI's Annie Raja. 

The ruling party also announced the name of Dr T. N Sarasu in Alathur, K S Radhakrishnan in Ernakulam and G Krishnakumar in Kollam seat.

The party has released the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.

Polling for Lok Sabha elections will be conducted in seven phases, from April 19 to June 1. The counting of votes will be taken up on June 4.

Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut has been fielded from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi, a stronghold of Congress.

The party has also fielded veteran actor Arun Govil, who played the character of Lord Ram in Ramanand Sagar's 'Ramayan' from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut.