New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) on Thursday launched its first record of candidates for the following Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Meeting elections. Whereas 39 candidates had been named within the first record for MP polls, 21 candidates made it to the primary record for the Chhattisgarh elections.
The candidate lists for the 2 poll-bound states had been launched a day after the BJP’s Central Election Committee reviewed the occasion’s ballot preparations in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. In a gathering that was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president JP Nadda, and Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, these seats the place the saffron occasion suffered a setback in earlier polls got here up for dialogue.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and former Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh had been additionally current on the key assembly.
BJP’s First Checklist Of Candidates For Madhya Pradesh Meeting Elections
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.
भारतीय जनता पार्टी केन्द्रीय चुनाव समिति ने मध्य प्रदेश में होने वाले आगामी विधानसभा चुनाव 2023 के लिए निम्नलिखित नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति प्रदान की है। pic.twitter.com/OLYREm5CvJ
— BJP MadhyaPradesh (@BJP4MP) August 17, 2023
BJP’s First Checklist Of Candidates For Chhattisgarh Meeting Polls
In Chhattisgarh, the BJP has fielded Lok Sabha MP Vijay 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.
भाजपा केंद्रीय चुनाव समिति ने छत्तीसगढ़ में होने वाले आगामी विधानसभा चुनाव 2023 के लिए निम्नलिखित नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति प्रदान की है। pic.twitter.com/onH3ZlZu4m
— BJP Chhattisgarh (@BJP4CGState) August 17, 2023
2018 Chhattisgarh, MP Meeting election outcomes
Within the 2018 Meeting polls, the BJP misplaced energy in each Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh however succeeded in toppling the Congress authorities in MP. It had received solely 15 of the 90 seats within the Chhattisgarh towards 68 of the Congress whereas its tally of seats was 109 towards 114 of the Congress within the 230-member Madhya Pradesh meeting.
The occasion had, although, swept the Lok Sabha polls in each states in 2019 as voters rallied again round its prime ministerial candidate Modi.
BJP Steps Up Ballot Preparations
The BJP’s choice to carry the CEC assembly so early — which normally takes place solely after ballot dates are introduced — underlines the importance it has hooked up to the upcoming five-state polls, the final spherical of meeting contest earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
5 states — Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram — are almost definitely to go to the polls in November-December this yr.
The BJP at present is in energy in solely Madhya Pradesh and is working an intense marketing campaign to oust the Congress authorities in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, and the Okay Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS in Telangana.
