Chhattisgarh Assembly Election: State-based Kranti Sena has launched its political outfit Johar Chhattisgarh Party (JHP) and announced its first of candidates for the upcoming Assembly election, scheduled to be held in two phases on November 7 and November 17.
The counting of votes is scheduled for December 3, along with the results of four other states including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram.
JHP's state president Amit Baghel in a presser informed that they have formed the party to fight for the rights of the people of Chhattisgarh. The party has announced the list of 31 candidates out of 90.
- Sunil Minj from Raigarh
- Yashwant Nishad from Kharsia
- Surendra Prasad Yadav (Sonu) from Katghora
- Parasram Yadav from Lormi
- Nobil Navrang from Mungeli
- Jaichand Kashyap from Takhatpur
- Santosh Sahu from Bilha
- Bobby Patre from Masturi
- Toofan Singh Chandel from Sakti
- Satish Pandey from Chandrapur
- Rampal Kashyap from Jaijapur
- Gendlal Dadsena from Khallari
- Rameshwar Sonwani from Bilaigarh
- Dr. Devesh Verma from Kasdol
- Chandrakant Yadu from Bhatapara
- Dhirendra Sahu from Raipur Rural
- Richa Verma from Raipur West
- Lakshmi Nag from Raipur North
- Manish Thakur from Raipur South
- Yash Sahu from Abhanpur
- Basant Sahu from Kurud
- Nikhilesh Sahu Dewan from Dhamtari
- Dr. Sandeep Belchandan from Gunderdehi,
- Madhukant Sahu from Patan
- Pankaj Chaturvedi from Durg City
- Ruturaj Verma from Bhilainagar
- Yogesh Sahu from Vaishalinaga,
- Arun Gandharva from Ahiwara
- Rajendra Patel from Saja
- Jitendra Deshalhara from Navagarh
- Manish Dewangan from Rajnandgaon
Ahead of polls, in a major announcement, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said if his party Congress retains power in the state, loans of farmers will be written off.
The Congress had made a similar promise ahead of the 2018 assembly polls to farmers, a move which contributed in the party recording a landslide win and ending the 15-year rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Baghel government had earlier said it fulfilled the 2018 promise and waived agriculture loans worth Rs 9,270 crore of 18.82 lakh farmers in the state.
Addressing a function in the Sakti assembly constituency with just a fortnight left for the first phase of polling, the CM urged people to re-elect the Congress to power so that the party's government writes off loans of farmers like it did after victory five years ago.
With inputs from PTI
