In Chhattisgarh Assembly Polls, BJP Relies On Old Guard, Ex-IAS Officers
NDTV
The BJP on Monday released its second list of candidates for 64 assembly seats, hours after assembly poll dates for Chhattisgarh were announced.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pinned its hopes on the old guard to ensure victory in the next month's assembly elections in Chhattisgarh as it gave tickets to 11 sitting MLAs and renominated 13 leaders who lost in the 2018 polls. The BJP on Monday released its second list of candidates for 64 assembly seats, hours after the Election Commission announced assembly poll dates for Chhattisgarh and four other states. The Maoist-affected state will have a two-phase polling on November 7 (20 seats) and November 17 (70 seats) to elect a new 90-member assembly.
With this, the saffron party has so far declared candidates for 85 seats with just five nominees left to be named.
Former chief minister Raman Singh will be contesting from his traditional Rajnandgaon seat, while Leader of Opposition in the assembly Narayan Prasad Chandel has been renominated from his current seat Janjir-Champa.
