- Except for Rau and Kasrawad assembly constituencies, all other seats are reserved for Dalits and tribals
- Names of candidates declared on 39 seats of MP
- 11 seats of Malwa-Nimar also included in these
Milind Mujumdar, Indore
BJP’s Central Election Committee on Thursday announced the names of candidates for 39 seats in Madhya Pradesh, including 11 seats in Malwa-Nimar, in which the BJP was defeated in the 2018 assembly elections except Jhabua. In the by-polls held a year later, the BJP was also defeated in Jhabua by a huge margin.
BJP has done a new experiment for the first time by announcing the names of the candidates three months before election, while the BJP State Election Committee has not yet been formed, till now the State Election Committee used to make a panel of two to three names and send them to the central leadership, and then from there only a single name used to be stamped, but this time the Central Election Committee has directly stamped the names, although before this, in a two-day meeting in Delhi, opinions were definitely taken from the prominent leaders of the state, these names were finalized. Along with the reports of ideological organizations, two to three rounds of surveys have also been important in giving shape, it can be understood from this kind of experiment that all the sources of MP assembly elections are completely with the Delhi leadership, and In the coming days, many more new experiments can be done in the state BJP from the point of view of elections.
It is said that BJP is preparing to declare the names of the candidates one by one in the next few days even on the seats occupied by Congress, this will give enough time to the candidates for election preparations, while the workers and voters will also be persuaded and allured. This experiment of BJP has also put pressure on Congress to announce the names of authorized candidates soon, because till now such news was coming from Congress camp only, and BJP has given a surprise. At the same time, the state leadership has also made it clear that even though there is still time for the elections, the candidates will not be changed on these seats, meaning the possible displeasure, protest and anger of other claimants has been dismissed and the message has been given that now get involved in the election campaign.
These are the candidates for 11 seats of Malwa-Nimar
* Sonkachh (SC) – Rajesh Sonkar’s name has been surprising from here, he is the District President of Indore Rural, and has been an MLA since Sanwer, he follows the organization line, and is close to Narendra Singh Tomar. Sajjan Singh Verma of Congress is the MLA
* Rau Assembly-Madhu Verma has been given another chance, he was defeated by a few thousand votes in the last election, during that time he had also said about not getting enough time, he has been active in the field since the defeat. Jitu Patwari of Congress is the MLA from here
* Maheshwar (SC) – Rajkumar Meo has been given the ticket, he has been an MLA twice, and in the last election he rebelled and took about 35,000 votes, due to which the BJP was defeated. Vijay Laxmi Sadhau of Congress is the MLA
* Kasrawad – Gave ticket to Atmaram Patel, he surprised by def eating Subhash Yadav in 2008, though he was defeated later. Sachin Yadav of Congress is the MLA
* Alirajpur (ST) – Naagar Singh Chauhan has been trusted again, he has been a three-time MLA from here, and was defeated in the last election, he has influence on the voters of the tribal class. Mukesh Patel of Congress is the MLA
* Jhabua (ST) – Bhanu Bhuria has been given a chance, he was defeated by a huge margin in the 2019 by-election, he has also been the district president of BJYM. Kantilal Bhuria of INC is a legislator
* Petlawad (ST) – Nirmala Bhuria will be in the fray again, she has been an MLA from here four times, but was defeated in the last election. Wal Singh Meda of Congress is the MLA
* Kukshi (ST) – Jaideep Patel’s name has been declared, Congress has occupied this seat twice. Honey Baghel of Congress is the MLA
* Dharampuri (ST) – Kalu Singh Thakur has been declared as the candidate, he was also an MLA in 2013, but was defeated in the last election. Prachilal Meda of Congress is the MLA
* Tarana (SC) – Tarachand Goyal has been given a chance, BJP was defeated from here in the last election. Mahesh Parmar of Congress is the MLA
* Ghattiya (SC) – Satish Malviya has been declared as the candidate, he was the MLA in 2013, but in 2018, Ajit Premchandra Guddu was given a chance at the last moment, and he was defeated. Ramlal Malviya of Congress is the MLA.
5 SC, 4 SC and 2 normal seats
Of the 11 seats in Malwa-Nimar, 5 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes and 4 for Scheduled Castes, while 2 seats are general, in this way the strategy has been to declare candidates first on reserved seats, Congress has influence on these seats as well.
