MP Election Candidates Full List Released: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday (August 17) announced candidates for 39 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, almost three months before the state elections due in November. The names of the candidates were finalised at the Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting which took place a day earlier. The meeting was chaired by party president JP Nadda and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah.
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, among others.
Among the candidates for 39 seats are those held senior Congress leaders such as former Union minister Kantilal Bhuria, Vijay Laxmi Sadho, Sachin Yadav, Arif Aqueel, NP Prajapati, Jitu Patwari, Surendra Singh Baghel, KP Singh and Lakshman Singh, the brother of Digvijaya Singh.
Sabalgarh – Sarla Vijendra Rawat Sumawali – Adal Singh Kansana Gohad (SC) – Lal Singh Arya Pichhore – Preetam Lodhi Chachoura – Priyanka Meena Chanderi – Jagannath Singh Raghuvanshi Banda – Veerendra Singh Lambardar Maharajpur – Kamakhya Pratap Singh Chhatarpur- Lalita Yadav Pathariya- Lakhan Patel Gunnaor (SC) – Rajesh Kumar Verma Chitrakoot – Surendra Singh Gaharwar Pushprajgarh (ST) – Heerasingh Shyam Barwara (ST) – Dhirendra Singh Bargi – Neeraj Thakur Jabalpur Purba (SC) – Anchal Sonkar Shahpura (ST) – Omprakash Dhurwey Bichhiya (ST) – Vijay Anand Marawi Baihar (ST) – Bhagat Singh Netam Lanji – Rajkumar Karrahe Barghat (ST) – Kamal Maskole Gotegaon
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