Congress has announced all its candidates in Chhattisgarh.
Congress has also announced candidates for the last seven seats for the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, in this list the names of 4 sitting MLAs have been removed. Before this, out of the 83 candidates announced twice, the party has also announced the tickets of about 18 MLAs. Has been cut. The surprising thing is that the Congress high command, which has no mercy in canceling the tickets of MLAs, has once again fielded all its ministers, expressing confidence in them, only the seat of one minister has been changed.
Congress had released its first list for Chhattisgarh Assembly elections on October 15, in this list of 30 candidates, the party had expressed confidence in all its ministers. In the list of 30 candidates, there were 19 seats for which elections are to be held in the first phase. In this list, the names of all the ministers including CM Bhupesh Baghel, TS Singh Deo were there, out of which the seat of only one minister was changed, this minister is Guru Rudra Kumar, whom this time the party has fielded from Navagarh instead of Ahiwara. In this list, tickets of 8 sitting MLAs were cut, after which it was believed that the party could give a chance to new faces.
Congress adopted BJP’s strategy
In Chhattisgarh, Congress has surprised everyone by canceling the tickets of sitting MLAs. This is the first time that Congress has canceled the tickets of its sitting MLAs on such a large scale. Political analysts believe that by doing this, Congress has expressed that this time in the war it does not want to lag behind BJP on any front. Some political analysts believe that this time Congress has adopted BJP’s strategy for the elections. In fact, till now BJP itself has been canceling the tickets of its sitting MLAs and MPs in the elections, it is believed that by doing so the effect of anti-incumbency reduces. This is visible in all the three lists of candidates released by Congress.
Tickets of 10 MLAs were cut in the second list
Earlier, Congress had canceled the tickets of 10 MLAs in the second list of 53 candidates released. The most special thing about this list was that 22 new faces were given a chance in it. After the second list, along with announcing candidates for total 83 seats of Chhattisgarh, the party had canceled the tickets of 18 sitting MLAs. Now in the third list, Congress has once again surprised everyone by canceling the tickets of 4 sitting MLAs.
Tickets of 30 percent sitting MLAs canceled
This time in Chhattisgarh, Congress has canceled the tickets of 22 out of 71 sitting MLAs. If we look at the statistics, then about 30 percent of the sitting MLAs of Congress will not contest the elections this time. With the release of the first list, CM Bhupesh Baghel had also hinted about it, he had announced that this time tickets will be given on the basis of survey report. The MLAs whose report card was good have been given a second chance.
This minister resigned from this seat
Chhattisgarh Congress had finalized the seats of all its ministers in the first list itself, among which Bhupesh Baghel was fielded from Patan seat, while Deputy CM TS Singh Deo was fielded from his traditional seat Ambikapur. In the list, all the ministers including Amarjit Bhagat, Umesh Patel, Jai Singh Grewal, Shivkumar Dahria, Ravinder Choubey, Mohammad Akbar were given a chance once again from their traditional seats, only Guru Rudra Kumar got a chance from Navagarh this time, admittedly. It was being said that the party has taken this step to avoid anti-incumbency.
