GG News Bureau
Bhopal, 14th June. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh has announced the names of the candidates for mayor elections in 13 out of 16 Municipal Corporations, while the party leadership is yet to reach a consensus on three candidates for Gwalior, Indore, and Ratlam.
The announcement was made by the state Bharatiya Janata Party president V.D. Sharma at the party headquarters in Bhopal on Tuesday. Sharma said that BJP will declare the remaining three mayoral candidates soon.
Out of 13 names announced so far, BJP has fielded seven women and no Muslim.
The party has fetched Malti Rai against the Congress’ Vibha Patel for Bhopal which is reserved for OBC (woman). Vibha Patel is state president of the MP Congress women wing.
The other mayoral candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party are – Jitendra Jamdar (Jabalpur), Mukesh Tatwal (Ujjain), Sangeeta Tiwari (Sagar), Prabodh Vyas (Rewa), Meena Jatav (Morena), Yogesh Tamrakar (Satna), Jyoti Dikshit (Katni), Chandra Prakash Vishvakarma (Singrauli), Amrita Yadav (Khandwa), Madhuri Patel (Burhanpur), Anant Dhurve (Chhindwara) and Geeta Agrawal from Devas.
The names were declared after three days of thinking by the BJP’s core committee members including Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Narendra Singh Tomar, state BJP in-charge Murlidhar Rao and state BJP president V.D. Sharma.
Sources said that the party’s core committee of the state leadership was stuck on the name of mayoral candidate from Gwalior Municipal Corporation because both the union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Singh Tomar are pushing for their loyalists. If sources are to be believed, CM Chouhan had also discussed this issue with Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a meeting in New Delhi on Monday.
The Congress party has already announced the names of its mayoral candidates for 15 out of 16 Municipal Corporations.
Polls to the 16 municipal corporations in Madhya Pradesh comprising 884 wards will be held in two phases – on July 6 and July 13. The counting of votes will be held on July 17 and July 18.
The filing of nominations has already commenced from June 11 and the last date to file the nominations is June 18. The last date for the withdrawal of nominations is June 22.
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