The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of candidates for the Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections, fielding 77 candidates from 90 constituencies for the polls, with Chief Minister Raman Singh contesting from his Rajnandgaon seat.
Among the 77 candidates, 14 are women and 14 sitting Members of Legislative Assemblies have been replaced with new names, Union health minister J P Nadda said today. The list was finalized during the BJP’s central election committee meeting that was chaired by party president Amit Shah and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, among others.
Among those fielded by the BJP include former IAS officer O P Chaudhary and tribal leader Ramdayal Uike, who recently left the Congress and joined the BJP. Chhattisgarh will go to polls in two phases on November 12 and November 20. The votes will be counted on December 11.
In a dramatic turn of events, former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi on Friday said he will not contest the elections and instead focus on campaigning. Jogi was the chief ministerial candidate of the ‘grand alliance’ between his Janata Congress Chhattisgarh, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI). He had earlier announced that he will contest against Raman Singh from Rajanandgaon.
The BJP also released a list of 38 candidates for the Telangana Assembly polls. There are a total of 119 Assembly candidates in the state. The party also released a list of 13 candidates for the Assembly polls in Mizoram.
Counting of votes for all the five poll-bound states - Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan - will take place on December 11.
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