The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday announced the second list of 17 candidates including Morena MP Anoop Mishra from Bhitarwar seat.
Meanwhile, the unrest in the saffron party continued on Monday, as the party decided to hold the nomination on Govindpura seat of Bhopal. Govindpura has been represented by veteran Babulal Gaur, who has been denied ticket and his daughter-law is one of the claimants from this constituency. Including four MLAs denied ticket in second list, the list of overall MLAs denied ticket has reached 38.
From Bhitarwar seat, Anoop Mishra, nephew of former PM Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had been sidelined in MP BJP for long, has been fielded. Since, he is the only Brahmin face of the party in Gwalior-Chambal region during the quota stir, it was believed that his candidature could bring in advantage of sympathy wave following demise of his uncle and the former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Nirmala Bhuria, Pellawad MLA and the wife of late BJP tribal leader Dilip Singh Bhuria, also has been given nomination. Minister of State for Health Sharad Jain who was rumoured to be denied ticket by the party found himself in the second list from Jabalpur North.
Former chairman of MP Tourism Development Corporation and the Ujjain South MLA Mohan Yadav also has been given ticket. Candidature from Seoni Malwa has been withheld as sitting MLA and the former Forest minister Sartaj Singh is adamant on a ticket from the seat. So is the case with Panna not featuring in the list, Minister Kusum Mahdele is presenting candidature from Panna.
BJP has so far announced list of 177 candidates but rolled back candidature from Ghatiya and one of its nominee Devi Singh Patel from Rajpur died following cardiac arrest on Monday morning.