BJP Releases First list of candidates for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023!
The BJP's early announcement of its candidate list for the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh demonstrates its strategic preparedness, diversified representation, and effort to reclaim political dominance following the difficult previous result.
Assembly Election: BJP released the first list of candidates, a Strategic move for the Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023
On Thursday, Bharatiya Janata Party released its first list of candidates for the assembly election of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. BJP released the names of 21 candidates for the upcoming assembly election of Chhattisgarh and the names of 39 candidates for Madhya Pradesh.
The names were selected at a meeting of the BJP’s Central Election Committee on Wednesday, which was held by the party’s leader J P Nadda and attended by senior leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, and others.
Laxmi Rajwade, Shakuntala Singh Porthe, Sarla Kosaria, Alka Chandrakar, and Geeta Ghasi Sahu are among the five female candidates whose names are on the list. A distant relative of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Durg MP Vijay Baghel’s name is also there on the list. Vijay Baghel will run for the Patan assembly seat in the election.
In order to give candidates more time to campaign, the first list of candidates for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh was announced early.
BJP is the first national party to release the names of candidates for both Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The declaration comes a day after the Party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting where preparations for the election were discussed.
In 2018, Only 15 of the 90 seats in the Chhattisgarh assembly were won by the BJP, compared to 68 by the Congress. States like Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram are scheduled to have elections later this year in addition to Chhattisgarh and MP.
Here is the full list of 21 BJP candidates for the Chhattisgarh assembly:
- Premnagar Bhulan Singh Maravi
- Bhatgaon Laxmi Rajwade
- Pratappur Shakuntala Singh Porthe
- Ramanujganj Ramvichar Netam
- Lundra Praboj Bhinj
- Kharsia Mahesh Sahu
- Dharamjaigarh Harishchandra Rathia
- Korba Lakhanial Dewangan
- Marwahi Pranav Kumar Marpachhi
- Saraipali Sarla Kosaria
- Khallari Alka Chandrakar
- Abhanpur Indrakumar Sahu
- Rajim Rohit Sahu
- Sihawa Shrawan Markam
- Daundi Lohara Devial Halwa Thakur
- Patan Vijay Baghel, MP
- Khairagarh Vikrant Singh
- Khulji Geeta Ghasi Sahu
- Mohla-Manpur Sanjeev Saha
- Kanker Asharam Netam
- Bastar Maniram Kashyap
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