BJP has introduced the list of candidates for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh even before the announcement of the assembly poll dates.
The BJP on Thursday launched its first list of 21 candidates for Chhattisgarh and 39 for Madhya Pradesh, together with 5 ladies in every state, for the upcoming assembly polls that are but to be introduced.
The celebration has fielded Vijay Baghel, its Durg MP, from Patan which is at present represented by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Congress chief Bhupesh Baghel.
The names had been determined on the BJP’s Central Election Committee assembly on Wednesday which was chaired by celebration chief J P Nadda and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in addition to Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah amongst different senior leaders.
In Chhattisgarh, the BJP has fielded Baghel from Patan, Bhulan Singh Maravi from Premnagar, Laxmi Rajwade from Bhatgaon, Shakuntala Singh Porthe from Pratappur (ST), Sarla Kosaria from Saraipali (SC), Alka Chandrakar from Khallari, Gita Ghasi Sahu from Khujji and Maniram Kashyap from Bastar (ST), amongst others.
In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP has fielded Sarla Vijendra Rawat from Sabalgarh, Priyanka Meena from Chachaoura, Lalita Yadav from Chhatarpur, Anchal Sonkar from Jabalpur Purba (SC), Nirmala Bhuriya from Petlawad, Bhanu Bhuriya from Jhabua (ST), Alok Sharma from Bhopal Uttar and Dhruv Narayan Singh from Bhopal Madhya, amongst others.
The celebration’s choice to announce the primary list of candidates so early underlines the importance it has hooked up to 5 state elections, the final spherical of assembly contest before the all-important Lok Sabha polls. Besides Chhattisgarh and MP, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram are scheduled to go to polls later this yr.
The BJP is in energy solely in Madhya Pradesh and is working an intense marketing campaign to oust the Congress authorities in Chhattisgarh.
The BJP in 2018 had received solely 15 of the 90 seats within the Chhattisgarh assembly in opposition to 68 of the Congress whereas its tally of seats was 109 in opposition to 114 of the Congress within the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly.
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