Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections 2023: Here's The Full List of BJP Candidates

Raman Singh, the former chief minister of Chhattisgarh will be contesting from his traditional Rajnandgaon seat.

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The BJP on Wednesday released its fourth list of candidates for the remaining four seats for the upcoming Chhattisgarh assembly elections.

With this, the main opposition party has announced its candidates for all the 90 assembly constituencies in the state, which will see voting in two phases on November 7 and 17. Votes will be counted on December 3.

All four seats are of unreserved category for which the party has put up fresh faces. Sitting MLA from Beltara seat Rajnish Singh has been denied a ticket, with the party going for 40-year-old Sushant Shukla, from there.

Shukla, a former member of the state youth commission, is co-incharge of the state Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP’s youth wing.

In the high-profile Ambikapur seat, the party has fielded Rajesh Agrawal, a member of its Surguja district executive committee. Deputy Chief Minister and incumbent MLA TS Singh Deo is the Congress nominee from Ambikapur.

The two other candidates, Dhaniram Dhiwar (Kasdol seat) and Dipesh Sahu (Bemetara), are also fresh faces.

In the third list, the party nominated Bhawna Bohra for the Pandariya seat in Kabirdham district.

Former chief minister Raman Singh will be contesting from his traditional Rajnandgaon seat, while Leader of Opposition in the assembly Narayan Prasad Chandel has been renominated from his current seat Janjir-Champa.

Popular Chhattisgarhi filmstar Anuj Sharma, who recently joined the BJP, has been fielded from Dharsiwa in Raipur district. The party has also fielded Ishwar Sahu from Saja seat in the Bemetara district.

State BJP president and Bilaspur Member of Parliament Arun Sao has been fielded from Lormi, Surguja MP and Union minister of State for Tribal Affairs Renuka Singh from Bharatpur-Sonhat (ST reserved) and Raigarh Lok Sabha member Gomti Sai from Pathalgaon (ST).

BJP candidates who lost in 2018, but in whom the party has reposed faith this time also are Shyam Bihari Jaiswal (Manendragarh), Bhaiyyalal Rajwade (Baikunthpur), Ramdayal Uikey (Pali-Tanakhar-ST), Kedar Kashyap (Narayanpur-ST), Mahesh Gagda (Bijapur-ST), Prem Prakash Pandey (Bhilai Nagar), Dayaldas Baghel (Navagarh-SC), Rajesh Munat (Raipur West), Vikram Usendi (Antagarh-ST), Amar Agrawal (Bilaspur) and Sanyogita Singh Judev (Chandrapur).

Former IAS officer OP Chaudhary, who lost the previous elections from Kharsia, has been fielded from adjoining Raigarh, while Sampat Agrawal, who unsuccessfully contested as an independent candidate five years ago, is the BJP nominee from Basna.

Durg MP Vijay Baghel will contest from Patan, the assembly constituency of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.

Former Chhattisgarh minister Ramvihcar Netam would contest from Ramanujganj (ST) seat where he had suffered defeat in 2013 against incumbent Congress MLA Brihaspat Singh. Both Vijay Baghel and Netam did not contest the 2018 assembly elections.

BJP spokesperson Devlal Halwa Thakur would contest from Daundi Lohara (ST) seat while former MLAs Sanjeev Shah, Shravan Markam and Lakhanlal Dewangan would contest from Mohla-Manpur (ST), Sihawa (ST) and Korba seats, respectively.

Of the 90 candidates from BJP, 33 are from OBC (Other Backward Class), 30 are from Scheduled Tribe (ST), 10 are from Scheduled Caste (SC), PTI quoted state BJP media joint in-charge Anurag Agrawal as saying.

Chhattisgarh BJP Candidate List 2023

Sr. No Assembly Name And Number Candidate Name
1 Bharatpur-Sonhat (ST)- 1 "Renuka Singh MP"
2 Manendragarh- 2 Shyam Bihari Jaiswal
3 Baikunthpur- 3 Bhaiyyalal Rajwade
4 Premnagar - 4 Bhulan Singh Maravi
5 Bhatgaon - 5 Laxmi Rajwade
6 Pratappur (ST) - 6 Shakuntala Singh Porthe
7 Ramanujganj (ST) - 7 Ramvichar Netam
8 Samri (ST)- 8 Udheshwari Paikra
9 Lundra (ST) - 9 Praboj Bhinj
10 Ambikapur - 10 Rajesh Agarwal
11 Sitapur (ST)- 11 Ram Kumar Toppo
12 Jashpur (ST)- 12 Raimuni Bhagat
13 Kunkuri (ST)- 13 Vishnu Dev Sai
14 Pathalgaon (ST)- 14 Gomati Sai
15 Lailunga (ST)- 15 Suniti Satyanand Rathia
16 Raigarh- 16 O.P. Choudhary
17 Sarangarh (SC)- 17 Shivkumari Chauhan
18 Kharsia - 18 Mahesh Sahu
19 Dharamjaigarh (ST) - 19 Harishchandra Rathia
20 Rampur (ST)- 20 Nankiram Kanwar
21 Korba - 21 Lakhanlal Dewangan
22 Katghora- 22 Premchandra Patel
23 Pali-Tanakhar (ST)- 23 Ramdayal Uikey
24 Marwahi (ST) - 24 Pranav Kumar Marpachhi
25 Kota- 25 Prabal Pratap Singh Judev
26 Lormi- 26 "Arun Sao MP"
27 Mungeli (SC)- 27 Punnulal Mohale
28 Takhatpur- 28 Dharamjeet Singh
29 Bilha- 29 Dharamlal Kaushik
30 Bilaspur- 30 Amar Agarwal
31 Beltara - 31 Sushant Shukla
32 Masturi (SC)- 32 Krishnamurti Bandi
33 Akaltara- 33 Saurabh Singh
34 Janjgir-Champa- 34 Narayan Prasad Chandel
35 Sakti- 35 Khilawan Sahu
36 Chandrapur- 36 Bahu Rani Sanyogita Singh Judev
37 Jaijaipur- 37 Krishnakant Chandra
38 Pamgarh (SC)- 38 Santosh Lahre
39 Saraipali (SC) - 39 Sarla Kosaria
40 Basna- 40 Sampat Agarwal
41 Khallari - 41 Alka Chandrakar
42 Mahasamund- 42 Yogeshwar Raju Sinha
43 Bilaigarh (SC)- 43 Dineshlal Jagade
44 Kasdol - 44 Dhaniram Dhivar
45 Baloda Bazar- 45 Tankram Verma
46 Bhatapara- 46 Shivratan Sharma
47 Dharsiwa- 47 Anuj Sharma
48 Raipur Rural- 48 Motilal Sahu
49 Raipur City West- 49 Rajesh Munat
50 Raipur City North- 50 Purandar Mishra
51 Raipur City South- 51 Brijmohan Agarwal
52 Arang (SC)- 52 Guru Khushwant Singh
53 Abhanpur - 53 Indrakumar Sahu
54 Rajim - 54 Rohit Sahu
55 Bindrawagarh (ST)- 55 Govardhan Ram Manjhi
56 Sihawa (ST) - 56 Shrawan Markam
57 Kurud- 57 Ajay Chandrakar
58 Dhamtari- 58 Ranjana Dipendra Sahu
59 Sanjari Balod- 59 Rakesh Yadav
60 Daundi Lohara (ST) - 60 Devlal Halwa Thakur
61 Gunderdehi- 61 Virendra Kumar Sahu
62 Patan - 62 "Vijay Baghel MP"
63 Durg Rural- 63 Lalit Chandrakar
64 Durg City- 64 Gajendra Yadav
65 Bhilai Nagar- 65 Premprakash Pandey
66 Vaishali Nagar- 66 Rikesh Sen
67 Ahiwara (SC)- 67 Doman Lal Korsevada
68 Saja- 68 Ishwar Sahu
69 Bemetara - 69 Dipesh Sahu
70 Navagarh (SC)- 70 Dayaldas Baghel
71 Pandaria - 71 Bhawna Bohra
72 Kawardha- 72 Vijay Sharma
73 Khairagarh - 73 Vikrant Singh
74 Dongargarh (SC)- 74 Vinod Khandekar
75 Rajnandgaon- 75 Raman Singh
76 Dongargaon- 76 Bharat Lal Verma
77 Khujji - 77 Geeta Ghasi Sahu
78 Mohla- Manpur (ST) - 78 Sanjeev Saha
79 Antagarh (ST)- 79 Vikram Usendi
80 Bhanupratappur (ST)- 80 Gautam Uikey
81 Kanker (ST) - 81 Asharam Netam
82 Keshkal (ST)- 82 "Neelkanth Tekam (Ex-IAS)"
83 Kondagaon (ST)- 83 Sushree Lata Usendi
84 Narayanpur (ST)- 84 Kedar Kashyap
85 Bastar (ST) - 85 Maniram Kashyap
86 Jagdalpur- 86 Kiran Singh Deo
87 Chitrakot (ST)- 87 Vinayak Goyal
88 Dantewada (ST)- 88 Chetaram Arami
89 Bijapur (ST)- 89 Mahesh Gagada
90 Konta (ST)- 90 Soyam Muka

The ruling Congress has also announced candidates for all 90 seats.

The Congress registered a landslide victory in the 2018 polls winning 68 seats and comfortably formed the government. The BJP was reduced to 15 seats, while the JCC (J) and the BSP bagged 5 and 2 seats, respectively. The current strength of the Congress is 71.

The Congress has set a target of winning 75 seats this time, according to party leaders.

(With PTI inputs)

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