BJP Fields 18 MPs, Including 4 Union Ministers, In Three State Polls
NDTV
Most of the MPs have been fielded on relatively difficult assembly seats, where the BJP had lost in the last elections.
The BJP has fielded 18 MPs, including four Union ministers, for the latest round of assembly polls so far -- seven each in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and four in Chhattisgarh. Seventeen of them, including three Union ministers fielded in Madhya Pradesh, are Lok Sabha members and most of them have been fielded on relatively difficult assembly seats, where the party had lost in the last elections.
The party on Monday announced fresh lists of candidates for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will contest from his traditional Budhni seat as the BJP announced the names of 57 more candidates for the assembly polls to be held on November 17. With this, the BJP has so far announced its candidates for 136 seats in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly.
