Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2023: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today (October 9) released its fourth list of candidates for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to contest again from his traditional seat of Budhni. State's Home Minister Narottam Mishra to contest from Datia, Gopal Bhargava from Rehli, Vishwas Sarang from Narela, and Tulsiram Silavat to contest from Sanwer constituency.
The party's list of candidates was released on the day the Election Commission (EC) announced the poll schedule in five states including Madhya Pradesh. Assembly polls will be held in Madhya Pradesh on November 17 (Friday) and counting of votes will be held on December 3 (Sunday).
List of BJP candidates for Madhya Pradesh:
Serial No. | Constituency Name | Candidate Name |
1. | Ater | Dr Arvind Singh Bhadauria |
2. | Gwalior Rural | Bharat Singh Kushwah |
3. | Gwalior | Pradhuman Singh Tomar |
4. | Datia | Dr Narottam Mishra |
5. | Khurai | Bhupendra Singh |
6. | Surkhi | Govind Singh Rajput |
7. | Rehli | Gopal Bhargava |
8. | Naryoli (SC) | Engineer Pradeep Laria |
9. | Sagar | Shailendra Jain |
10. | Khargapur | Rahul Singh Lodhi |
11. | Malhara | Kunwar Pradhuman Singh Lodhi |
12. | Panna | Brijendra Pratap Singh |
13. | Rampur-Baghelan | Vikram Singh |
14. | Sirmour | Divyaraj Singh |
15. | Mauganj | Pradeep Patel |
16. | Deotalab | Girish Gautam |
17. | Rewa | Rajendra Shukla |
18. | Churhat | Shardendu Tiwari |
19. | Jaisingnagar (ST) | Manisha Singh |
20. | Jaitpur (ST) | Jaisingh Maravi |
21. | Anuppur (ST) | Bisahulal Singh |
22. | Manpur (ST) | Kumari Meena Singh Mandve |
23. | Vijayraghavgarh | Sanjay Satyendra Pathak |
24. | Murwara | Sandeep Shriprasad Jaiswal |
25. | Patan | Ajay Vishnoi |
26. | Jabalpur Cantonment | Ashok Rohani |
27. | Panagar | Sushil Kumar Tiwari |
28. | Paraswada | Ramkishore Kanvre |
29. | Seoni | Dinesh Munmun Rai |
30. | Amla (SC) | Dr Yogesh Pandagre |
31. | Harda | Kamal Patel |
32. | Sohagpur | Vijaypal Singh |
33. | Sanchi (SC) | Dr Prabhuram Chaudhary |
34. | Silwani | Rampal Singh |
35. | Sironj | Umakant Sharma |
36. | Berasia (SC) | Vishnu Khatri |
37. | Narela | Vishwas Sarang |
38. | Govindpura | Krishna Gaur |
39. | Huzur | Rameshwar Sharma |
40. | Budhni | Shivraj Singh Chouhan |
41. | Ichhawar | Karan Singh Verma |
42. | Sehore | Sudesh Rai |
43. | Dewas | Gayatriraje Pawar |
44. | Hatpipliya | Manoj Chaudhary |
45. | Khategaon | Ashish Govind Sharma |
46. | Harsud (ST) | Dr Kunwar Vijay Shah |
47. | Badwani (ST) | Prem Singh Patel |
48. | Badnawar | Rajvardhan Singh Premsingh Datigaon |
49. | Indore-2 | Ramesh Mendola |
50. | Indore-4 | Malini Laxman Singh Gaur |
51. | Sanwer (SC) | Tulsiram Silavat |
52. | Ujjain Dakshin | Dr Mohan Yadav |
53. | Ratlam City | Chetanya Kumar Kashyap |
54. | Mandsour | Yashpal Singh Sisodia |
55. | Malhargarh (SC) | Jagdish Deora |
56. | Suwasra | Hardeep Singh Dang |
57. | Jawad | Omprakash Sakhlecha |
The BJP has made an early announcement of candidates for the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh. The BJP released its first list of candidates for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections on August 17 which had names of around 39 candidates.
The second list was released on September 25. The list featured three central ministers - Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of State (MoS) for Food Processing Industries Prahlad Singh Patel, and Minister of State for Rural Development and Steel Faggan Singh Kulatse - and four other Lok Sabha MPs.
A day later, the party announced that Monika Batti will contest from Amarwara, a seat reserved for STs. She joined the BJP after leaving the Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP). Of the five states going to the polls, the BJP is in power in Madhya Pradesh.
Elections will also be held next month in Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Rajasthan and Mizoram and the counting of votes will take place on December 3.
Some prominent candidates declared by BJP for Madhya Pradesh in its fourth list:
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Budhni)
- Dr Narottam Mishra (Datia)
- Dr Arvind Singh Bhadauria (Ater)
- Pradhuman Singh Tomar (Gwalior)
- Govind Singh Rajput (Surkhi)
- Rahul Singh Lodhi (Khargapur)
- Rajendra Shukla (Rewa)
- Bishaulal Singh (Anuppur)
- Vishwas Sarang (Narela)
- Krishna Gaur (Govindpura)
- Tulsiram Silavat (Sanwer)
- Hardeep Singh Dang (Suwasra)