MP Election 2023: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the main component of the opposition alliance ‘India’, has released its second list of 29 candidates for the assembly elections to be held at the end of the year in Madhya Pradesh. This step of the Arvind Kejriwal led party has further reduced the chances of the opposition alliance ‘India’ working together in the MP elections. Overall, AAP has announced candidates for 39 seats through two lists for the upcoming assembly elections in the state. Earlier, the first list of ten candidates was released at the beginning of last month. The name of former BJP MLA Mamta Meena is included in the second list of candidates. Meena had joined AAP last month after being denied ticket by BJP from Chachoda seat in Guna district. AAP has fielded him from Chachoda assembly seat.
Candidates for three Scheduled Tribe (ST) and four Scheduled Caste (SC) reserved seats were also announced in the list released from AAP’s ‘X’ account on Monday night. AAP also announced two candidates from Bhopal city, including Mohammad Saud (Bhopal North) and Raisa Begum Malik (Narela). Three candidates were declared from Indore district – Sunil Chaudhary (Mhow), Anurag Yadav (Indore-1) and Piyush Joshi (Indore-4). The list includes Ramani Devi Jatav (Bhander), Rahul Kushwaha (Bhind), Satendra Bhadoria (Mehgaon), Chahat Mani Pandey (Damoh), Chanda Kinnar (Malhara), Bheru Singh Anare (Gandhwani), Anup Goyal (Shivpuri), Sunil Gaur ( The names of Seoni-Malwa), Anand Singh (Bargi), Pankaj Pathak (Panagar) and Vijay Mohan Palha (Patan) are included.
The ruling AAP in Delhi and Punjab has fielded candidates Nan Singh Nawde (Sendhwa), Dilip Singh Guddu (Devtalab), Varun Ambedkar (Mangawan), Umesh Tripathi (Mauganj), Varun Gurjar Khatik (Raigaon), Usha Kol (Manpur), Ratibhan Saket (Deosar). ), Anand Mangal Singh (Sidhi), Amit Bhatnagar (Bijawar), Bhagirath Patel (Chhatarpur), Subodh Swami (Nagda-Khachrod) and Deepak Singh Patel (Rewa) have also been fielded. The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh has so far announced 79 candidates in three different lists, while the Congress has not released any list of candidates so far.
India alliance had announced a joint rally in Bhopal in the first week of October
AAP and Congress, two key members of the opposition alliance ‘India’, have not yet decided whether they will contest the Madhya Pradesh elections as alliance partners or not. After a meeting in Delhi last month, the India alliance had announced a joint rally in Bhopal in the first week of October, but MP Congress chief Kamal Nath later said it had been cancelled. In the last assembly elections held in 2018, Congress had won 114 seats in the 230-member assembly and formed a coalition government. BJP had won 109 seats. The Kamal Nath-led Congress government fell in March 2020, after which the BJP returned to power and Shivraj Singh Chouhan became the Chief Minister for the fourth time.