The BJP on Thursday released its third list of 32 candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. Polls to the 230-member MP Assembly house will be held on November 28 while the results will be announced on December 11.
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The party has fielded national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya`s son Akash Vijayvargiya from the Indore-3 constituency and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Babulal Gaur`s daughter-in-law Krishna Gour from Govindpura constituency.
The list includes six Scheduled Castes, two Scheduled Tribes and five women. Among others are Shivmangal Singh Tomar, Rakesh Choudhary, Rajni Prajapati, Anil Jain, Lakhan Patel, Shiv Bahadur Chandel, Moti Kashyap, Babulal Verma, and Malini Gour.
Earlier, the BJP had released two lists of 177 and 17 candidates respectively for the assembly polls, fielding Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Budhni seat.
The Congress had on Wednesday released its fourth list of 29 candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The grand old party had earlier announced three lists of 155, 16 and 13 candidates respectively for the 230-member MP Assembly. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan's brother-in-law Sanjay Singh will contest from Waraseoni on a Congress ticket.