MP: BJP releases 5th list of candidates, 3 ministers, 26 MLAs dropped
With this, the party has so far announced its candidates for 228 assembly constituencies in the 230-member state assembly
Bhopal: BJP on Saturday released the fifth list of 92 candidates for poll-bound Madhya Pradesh in which 29 sitting MLAs including three state ministers were dropped.
With this, the party has so far announced its candidates for 228 assembly constituencies in the 230-member state assembly.
Candidates for two remaining assembly seats of Guna and Vidisha are yet to be declared by the party.
The three ministers who were dropped in the fifth list were O P S Bhadoria, Yasodhara Raje Scindia, and Gouri Shankar Bisen.
While Ms Scindia, kin of Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, had earlier expressed her desire to withdraw from the contest in the November 17 assembly polls in the state citing her health, Mr Bisen has given way in his assembly constituency of Balaghat for his daughter Mausumi in the polls.
Six ministers in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan ministry have found place in the fifth list.
Two Congress leaders, Sachin Birla and Siddharth Tiwari, who switched over to BJP a couple of weeks ago were given party tickets in the polls.
Mr Birla, a sitting MLA, has been re-nominated in his assembly constituency of Barwa.
Sitting BJP legislator in the Indore- three assembly constituency, Akash, son of BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, has been replaced with Golu Shukla, a new face, in the seat.
Senior Vijayvargiya who has been nominated by the party in Indore-one assembly constituency has earlier said that his son has already informed the BJP national president J P Nadda not to contest in the polls.
In Jobat assembly constituency, sitting BJP MLA Sulochana Rawat has given way to her son Vishal Rawat.
Former assembly speaker Sitaraman Sharma has been nominated for Hoshangabad assembly constituency by the party.
He is going to face his brother Giriha Shankar Sharma of Congress in the seat.
Three former ministers, Jayant Mallaiya, Maya Singh and Archana Chitnis, who had lost the last assembly polls, have been given party tickets to contest in their respective assembly constituencies in the polls.