The Congress on Wednesday released its second list of 53 candidates for the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, scheduled to be held in two phases on November 7 and 17 respectively.
In its second list, the party has denied tickets to 10 sitting MLAs. Of the 83 seats declared till now, a total of 18 sitting MLAs have been named. Earlier on Sunday (October 15), candidates for 30 assembly seats were announced by Congress.
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The party is yet to declare the candidates for the remaining seven seats. The results for the Assembly elections will be announced on December 3.
Here’s the second list of Congress candidates:
Bharatpur-Sonhat-ST – Gulab Singh Kamro
Manendragarh – Ramesh Singh
Premnagar – Khelsai Singh
Bhatgaon – Paras Nath Rajwade
Pratappur-ST – Rajkumari Marawi
Ramanuganj-ST – Dr. Ajay Tirkey
Samri-ST – Vijay Pakara
Lundra-ST – Dr. Pritam Ram
Jashpur- ST – Vinay Kumar Bhagat
Kunkun-ST – U. D. Minj
Pathalgaon-ST – Rampukar Singh
Lailunga – ST – Vidyavali Sidar
Raigarh – Prakash Shakrajeet Naik
Sarangarh-SC – Uttari Jangde
Dharamjaigarh-ST – Laljeet Singh Rathiya
Rampur-ST – Phool Singh Rathiya
Katghora – Purshottam Kanwar
Pali-Tanakhar ST – Duleshwari Sidar
Marwahi-ST – Dr. K.K. Dhruv
Kota – Atal Srivastav
Lormi – Thaneshwar Sahu
Mungeli-SC – Sanjit Banerjee
Takhatpur – Dr. Rashmi Ashish Singh
Bilha – Siyaram Kaushik
Bilaspur – Shailesh Pandey
Beltara – Vijay Kesarwani
Masturi-SC – Dilip Lahariya
Akaltara – Raghvendra Singh
Janjgir-Champa – Vyas Kashyap
Chandrapur – Ram Kumar Yadav
Jaijaipur – Baleshwar Sahu
Pamgarh-SC – Sheshraj Harbans
Basna – Devender Bahadur Singh
Khallari – Dwarkadhish Yadav
Bilaigarh-SC – Ms. Kavita Pran Lahare
Baloda Bazar – Shailesh Trivedi
Bhatapara – Inder Kumar Sao
Dharsiwa – Chhaya Verma
Raipur Rural – Pankaj Sharma
Raipur City West – Vikas Upadhyay
Raipur City South – Mahant Ram Sundar Das
Abhanpur – Dhanendra Sahu
Rajim – Amitesh Shukla
Bindranawargarh-ST – Janak Lal Dhruv
Kurud – Tarini Chandrakar
Sanjari Balod – Sangeeta Sinha
Gunderdehi – Kunwar Singh Nishad
Durg City – Arun Vora
Bhilai Nagar – Devendra Yadav
Vaishali Nagar – Mukesh Chandrakar
Ahiwara SC – Nirmal Kosare
Bemetara – Ashish Kumar Chhabra
Jagdalpur – Jitin Jaiswal