Congress declares candidates for by-polls

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Congress declares candidates for by-polls

Wednesday, 06 October 2021 | Staff Reporter | Bhopal

While preparations for the Khandwa parliamentary constituency and three assembly seats by-election is on by both major political parties, the Congress on Tuesday declared candidates for all the four seats.

On the other hand, the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh is still mulling over the candidature of candidates on all four seats. The bypolls scheduled on October 30, are being considers as semifinals before the 2023 assembly polls.

The Congress named former MLA Rajnarayan Singh Purni as its Khandwa Lok Sabha candidate. The three-time legislator is considered close to Rajya Sabha member Digvijay Singh.

Kalpana Verma, a district panchayat member from Satna who had lost 2018 assembly polls, has been given a ticket for Raigaon seat (reserved for scheduled caste candidates), while Mahesh Patel, Alirajpur Congress district president and son of former MLA late Vesta Patel, has been offered ticket for Jobat seat (reserved for scheduled tribe candidates). The party had already announced Nitendra Singh, son of former minister Brajendra Singh Rathore, as the candidate for the Prithvipur seat in Niwari district. The seat fell vacant following the death of Rathore.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Tuesday that the BJP will announce its candidates soon as the process of selection has been completed. He said the BJP does not take much time for candidate selection as it does not look for dynasties or families but focuses on party workers. He added that there was no groupism in the saffron party, not does the party has people suggesting different names as candidates.

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