BJP, Congress release lists of candidates for MP Assembly polls

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Nov 08, 2018

9:12PM

BJP, Congress release lists of candidates for MP Assembly polls

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The BJP on Thursday released its third list of 32 candidates while the Congress released its fifth list of 16 candidates for the Assembly elections.

The BJP has fielded national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya's son Akash Vijayvargiya from the Indore-3 seat and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Babulal Gaur's daughter-in-law Krishna Gour from Govindpura.

According to Congress press release, former MP Sartaj Singh, who switched over to the Congress from the BJP today will contest from Hoshangabad constituency.

Giving a major setback to the Congress, Nitin, son of senior leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi filed nomination from Rajnagar on a Samajwadi party ticket.

Tomorrow is the last day of filing of nominations.

Polling for 230 seats of Madhya Pradesh Assembly will be held on the 28th of this month. Results will be announced on December 11.