Day one passes without any nomination papers filed

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Day one passes without any nomination papers filed

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 | Staff Reporter | Raipur

The poll process has been kicked off in Chhattisgarh for the first phase of polling with the respective eight District Electoral Officers (DEOs) who are also district collectors issuing notification for polls including the schedule of filing of nomination papers.

The nomination filing opened on Tuesday with notification during morning hours as part of Assembly Election 2018. On day one, no nomination papers were filed in 18 assembly constituencies.

Even though the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition Congress has not officially announced the candidates for first phase of polls, both parties are undertaking extensive meetings for declaring the candidates so to file nomination before the last date. Meanwhile, other parties like AAP, Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (Jogi) and other parties have already declared their candidates.

With the notification, the prominent candidates likely to contest elections are Chief Minister Raman Singh from Rajnandgaon seat, School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap from Narayanpur, Mahesh Gagda from Bijapur, Deputy Leader of Opposition Kawasi Lakhma who had been retaining the seat t ill date from Konta, Santosh Bafna, who had won twice from Jagdalpur seat which is a general seat in tribal belt. BJP sources informed that Vikram Usendi, Member of Parliament from Kanker is likely to contest state assembly election. He had also earlier elected to assembly before contesting Lok Sabha polls.

As per information received from Chief Electoral Officer, the notification has been issued by Sukma district for Konta Assembly constituency, Bijapur district for Bijapur, Dantewada district for Dantewada, Bastar district for Chitrakote, Bastar and Jagdalpur, Narayanpur district for Narayanpur, Kondagaon district for Keshkal and Kondagaon, Kanker district for Antagarh, Bhanupratappur and Kanker, Rajnandgaon district for Khairagarh, Dongargarh, Rajnandgaon, Dongargaon, Khujji and Mohala-Manpur Assembly constituencies.Last date for submission of nomination papers is October 23.

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