Congress has released its second list for Chhattisgarh Assembly elections (Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha Election 2023). It includes names of 53 candidates. Congress has made former mayor Jatin Jaiswal its candidate from Jagdalpur. Jatin Jaiswal is considered close to Deputy Chief Minister TS Singhdev. Sanhad BJP has also nominated its former mayor Kiran Dev from Jagdalpur. This is an unreserved seat. It is clear that there will be an election battle between two former mayors from Jagdalpur seat.
In its second list, Congress has fielded Arun Vora, son of its senior leader Motilal Vora, from Durg city. With the names of 53 candidates appearing in this list, the number of candidates announced by Congress has increased to 83. There are 90 assembly seats in the state. The party has fielded sitting MLA Vikas Upadhyay from Raipur City West Assembly seat, Pankaj Sharma from Raipur Rural while Mahant Ram Sundar Das has fielded from Raipur South Assembly seat.
Congress has given a chance to Shailesh Pandey from Bilaspur. Sitting MLA Arun Vora has been made a candidate again from Durg city. His father Motilal Vora was the Chief Minister of United Madhya Pradesh. Earlier on Sunday, Congress had announced the names of 30 candidates in its first list. Elections for the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly will be held in the state in two phases (November 7 and 17). Counting of votes will take place on December 3 along with four other states.
Congress has fielded Gulab Singh Kamro from Bharatpur-Sonhat (ST), Ramesh Singh from Manendragarh, Khelsai Singh from Premnagar, Lundra (ST) Pritam Ram, Jashpur (ST) Vinay Kumar Bhagat, Kunkuri (ST) UD Minj, Pathalgaon (ST) Rampukar. Singh and Paras Nath Rajwade from Bhatgaon, Rajkumari Maravi from Pratappur (ST), Ajay Tirkey from Ramanujganj (ST) and Samari (ST) Vijay Paikra have been fielded. Vidyawati Sidar from Lailunga (ST), Prakash Shakrajit Nayak from Raigarh, Utari Jangde from Sarangarh (SC) and Laljit Singh Rathiya from Dharamjaygarh (ST) have been given the opportunity.
