MP News: The second list of 29 candidates for the year-end assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh was announced by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a significant member of the opposition INDIA alliance. The probability that the INDIA bloc alliance will prevail in the MP elections has been considerably diminished by the Arvind Kejriwal-led party’s action.
For the 2019 assembly elections in the state, the AAP has so far announced candidates for 39 seats. It had earlier in the month issued its initial list of 10 applicants. Mamta Meena, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA who joined the AAP last month after being rejected a ticket by the saffron party from Chachoura, was listed among the contenders on the second list. She is running for office under the AAP in the same district.
List of candidates:
Candidates for three reserved seats for Scheduled Tribes (ST) and four reserved seats for Scheduled Castes (SC) were also announced on the list, which was made public through the AAP’s X account on Monday night. Additionally, the AAP announced two candidates from Bhopal City: Raisa Begum Malik (Narela) and Mohammed Saud (Bhopal North).
Three candidates, Sunil Choudhary (Mhow), Anurag Yadav (Indore-1) and Piyush Joshi (Indore-4) were selected from the Indore district. Ramani Devi Jatav, Rahul Kushwaha, Satinder Bhadoriya, Chanda Kinnar, Sunil Choudhary, Bheru Singh Anare, Anoop Goyal, Sunil Gour, Anand Singh, Pankaj Pathak, Panagar, and Vijay Mohan Palha are all on the list.
The AAP, which is currently in power in Delhi and Punjab, also fielded candidates for Sendhwa, Deotalab, Mauganj, Varun Ambedkar, Usha Kol, Ratibhan Saket, Devsar, Anand Mangal Singh, Sidhi, Bijawar, Bhagirath Patel, Nagda-Khachrod, and Rewa.
Congress yet to release list of candidates
While the Congress has yet to release list of candidates, the BJP, which is currently in power in MP, has so far announced 79 candidates across three different lists.
Two important opposition INDIA bloc members, the AAP and the Congress, are still debating whether or not to run as allies in the MP elections. The INDIA bloc had arranged a unified rally in Bhopal the first week of October following a conference in Delhi last month, but MP Congress head Kamal Nath later claimed that it had been postponed.
The Congress formed a coalition administration after winning 114 seats in the 230-member Assembly in the most recent assembly elections, which were held in 2018. 109 seats were won by the BJP. After the Kamal Nath-led Congress government fell in March 2020, the BJP gained control, and Shivraj Singh Chouhan was elected chief minister for a fourth time.
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