by The candidates were decided at BJPs Central Election Committee meeting on Wednesday which was chaired by party chief J P Nadda, attended by PM Narendra Modi as well as Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah among other senior leadersIn Chhattisgarh BJP has fielded 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, Maniram Kashyap from Bastar ST among othersIn MP it has named 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, Dhruv Narayan Singh from Bhopal Madhya among othersThe partys decision to announce the first list of candidates so early underlines the significance it has attached to the five state elections the last round of assembly contest before the Lok Sabha polls In 2019 BJP had won only 15 of the 90 seats in Chhattisgarh assembly against 68 of Congress while its tally was 109 against 114 of Congress in the 230member Madhya Pradesh assembly
Published in The Times of India (Online) (18.08.2023)