The electorate of the State are curious about to know how many of the 72 MlAs, who fought the election on the BJP, the Congress and the BSP tickets, would win and reach the next Assembly. Election history of the State says that more than 40 MlAs have not won the election for the second time in Chhattisgarh. It would be made clear on December 8 that the history of the State would be repeated or a new record would be created.
After the election, along with political parties, common people are also enthusiastic about the winning or losing of candidates. Both the BJP and the Congress had fielded their candidates in all the 90 seats. Similarly, the third major party, the BSP, had also pitted its candidates in almost all the constituencies.
The ruling BJP, after denying tickets to 13 sitting MlAs of the total 49, had fielded 36 MlAs, including all the Ministers in the Raman Cabinet — Nankiram Kanwar, Brijmohan Agrawal, Amar Agrawal, Ramvichar Netam, Punnulal Mohle, Hemchand Yadav, Chandrashekhar Sahu, Rajesh Munat, Kedar Kashyap, Vikram Usendi, Dayaldas Baghel and lata Usendi.
Besides them, Bhaiyyalal Rajwade, Renuka Singh, Rajani Tripathi, Siddhnath Paikara, Omprakash Rathiya, Raju Singh Thakur, Dharamlal Kaushik, Badridhar Diwan, Dr Krishnamurthy Bandhi, Narayan Chandel, Yudhvir Singh Judeo, lakshmi Baghel, Devjibhai Patel, Nande Sahu, Virendra Kumar Sahu, Vijay Baghel, Komal Janghel, Sevakram Netam, Subhau Kashyap, Santosh Bafna, Baiduram Kashyap, Bhima Mandavi and Mahesh Gagada were also been fielded by the party.
Similarly, out of the 38 MlAs, the Congress had denied ticket to three and the rest 35 MlAs were fielded in the election arena, in which leader of the opposition Ravindra Choubey, Dr Premsai Singh Tekam, TS Singhdeo, Amarjeet Bhagat, Sampukar Singh, Hriday Ram Rathiya, Dr Shakrajeet Nayak, Padma Manhar Rathore, Mahant Ramsundar Das, Haridas Bharadwaj, Devendra Bahadur Singh, Paresh Bagbahara, Agri Chandrakar, Shivkumar Dahariya, Rajkamal Singhania, Chaithram Sahu, Kuldeep Juneja, Rudrakumar Guru, Abhishek Shukla, Ambika Markam, lekhram Sahu, Gurmukh Singh Hora, Pratima Chandrakar, Baharuddin Qureshi, Bhajan Singh Nirankari, Tamradwaj Sahu, Mohd Akbar, Bholaram Sahu and Kawasi lakhma are included.
The Bahujan Samaj Party had fielded one of its two MlAs, Doojram Boudh. Accordingly, all the three major parties had fielded total 72 MlAs in this Assembly lection. Now, the question is that how many of the 72 would sail their boat to the bankIJ looking to the poll history, from 1957 to 2008, not more than 40 MlAs had won in any of the elections. In the 1985 election, maximum 40 MlAs had won. Out of which 39 were from the Congress and the remaining one was from the BJP.
Before the 1957 and 1962 elections, candidates of the Congress and independents had dominance in two elections.
In the 1957 elections, the Congress had fielded 28 of its 57 MlAs, out of which 22 won the election. In the 1962 elections, the Congress had fielded only 18 out of 68 MlAs and 12 of them won that election. Besides, six independent and other party MlAs had also won that election.
likewise, 26 MlAs in 1962 elections, 19 in 1977, 32 in 1980, 17 in 1990, 30 in 1993 and 26 MlAs won the 1998 elections, whereas, in the 2003 and 2008 elections 38 MlAs each won the elections and reached the assembly. This time all the 72 MlAs of all the three major parties fought the election and all of them expecting their victory.
The BJP and the Congress had field their 21 former MlAs this time. Those ex-MlAs fought the election on BJP tickets are – state president Ramsevak Paikara, Ramsharan Bhagat, Poonam Chandrakar, Gourishankar Agrawal, Shivratan Sharma, Ajay Chandrakar, Indar Chopra, Preetam Sahu, Ramsheela Sahu, Premprakash Pandey. Similarly, the Congress had fielded 11 ex-MlAs Chandrabhan Barmate, Siyaram Kaushik, Motilal Devangan, Dhanendra Sahu, Nobel Verma, Satyanarayan Sharma, Bhupesh Baghel, Arun Vora, Manthuram Pawar and Manoj Mandavi.
Besides, 15 other ex-MlAs have fought the election on independent, Swabhiman Manch, Shivsena, Gongpa, Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha and BSP tickets. So, 36 former MlAs had tried their luck in this election and people are enthusiastic to know that how many of them would win the election.