The Congress on Thursday released the final list of candidates for Chhattisgarh Assembly elections 2018. Pratima Chandrakar has been denied ticket from Durg (rural) seat. Chandrakar has been replaced by Tamrdhwaj Sahu. Similarly, Renu Jogi has also been denied a ticket for the Assembly elections scheduled to be held later this month.
While Kuldeep Juneja has been picked from Raipur North seat, Shailesh Pandey has been given ticket from Bilaspur. Badruddin Qureshi has also been included in the list.
This time the Congress is seeking to oust the BJP, which has been ruling the state since 2003, from power. The assembly election in the state will be held in two phases.
Congress final list of candidates for Chhattisgarh Assembly elections.
A total of 18 assembly seats in the eight Naxal-hit districts will go to polls in the first phase of polling on November 12. The second phase of polling for the remaining seats 72 will be held on November 20 and results will be out on December 11.
The Congress had announced the candidates for the first phase polling in two lists on October 18 and 22. On October 27, it had released another list of 37 candidates for the second phase of poll.
In the first phase polling, the Congress has fielded former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla from Rajnandgaon Assembly constituency against Chief Minister Raman Singh.
(With inputs from agencies)
