The list of Bharatiya Janata Party candidates for the upcoming Chhattisgarh council elections, announced yesterday, is expected to produce a “Baghel vs. Baghel” fight in one constituency. important. The BJP is bringing Durg MP Vijay Baghel back to the battlefield in the state polls, hoping he will oust his uncle, Minister Bhupesh Baghel, from the Patan seat. It is not yet known whether the prime minister will run from his stronghold.
Vijay Baghel, head of the 31-member “Ghoshna Patra Samiti” or BJP manifesto committee for upcoming polls, defeated Bhupesh Baghel in the 2008 election from the same seat. It was his debut in Congress. However, in 2013, he lost to Bhupesh Baghel. He did not run in the 2018 state polls. In the 2019 general election, he ran against Pratima Chandrakar of the Durg Parliament and won nearly forty thousand votes. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is considering a return to Chhattisgarh in the upcoming parliamentary elections, released its first list on Thursday. among the candidates for 21 seats where he was last defeated.
There are 16 new faces on the list, most of which are representatives of district panchayat bodies, while 5 candidates are former MPs. The list has five women. A leader of the BJP told PTI news agency that the party is not very strong in those 21 seats, which is why the candidates are announced early so they have enough time to go to the people and connect. with them.
In 2018, the National Assembly won 68 seats out of 90, while the BJP came in second with 15 seats. The JCC (J) won five seats and its ally, the BSP, two seats.
