The Congress has come out with the second list of its 27 candidates on Wednesday night. To almost everybody in the State, former Union Minister and former PCC chief Suresh Pachouri has been fielded from Bhojpur.
This would be Pachouri’s second election in the lifetime. Earlier, he had contested lok Sabha polls from Bhopal against former Chief Minister Uma Bharti and got defeated with a record margin.
Pachouri has been fielded at Bhojpur against BJP's Surendra Patwa, who is son of former chief minister and veteran BJP leader Surendra Patwa. Another important name in the list is of Congress Seva Dal's national vice president Mahendra Joshi who has been fielded from Shujalpur.
Besides, former Speaker of State assembly Shrinivas Tiwari's son Sunderlal Tiwari, who is also ex-parliamentarian, has been fielded from Gurh.Besides, the Congress changed candidates on two constituencies. Earlier, Anil Tiwari was fielded from Pawai, but in today's list, State Congress media in-charge Mukesh Nayak has been fielded. Similarly, in Damoh, by canceling previous ticket, Choudhary Chandrabhan lodhi has been fielded. Similarly, the candidates in Ashok Nagar, Chanderi, Rampur-Baghelan, Dhauni and lakhnadon have also been changed.
The list of 26 candidates declared on Wednesday includes- Rajendra Bharti from Datia, Jajpal Jajji from Ashok Nagar, Gopal Singh Chauhan from Chanderi, Braj Bihari Pateriya from Rehli, Dinesh Ahirwar from Jatara, Harprasad Anuragi from Chandla, Chandrabhan Singh from Damoh, Mukesh Nayak from Pawai, Sudha S Patel from Rampur-Baghelan, Vivek Tiwari from Sirmour, Sundarlal Tiwari from Gurh, Tilak Raj Singh from Dhauhani, Surendra Kumar Demole from Tendukheda, Ravt Kishore Jaiswal from Hoshangabad, Ranveer Singh Patel from Sohagpur, Suresh Pachouri from Bhojpur, Govardhan Upadhyay from Sironj, Mahendra Joshi from Shujalpur, Arjun Verma from Sonkatch, Narayan Patel from Mandhata, Jewier Meda from Jhabua, Gendal Damore from Thandla, Niranjan Dawar from Manawar,
Rajendra Malviya from Tarana, Vjvek Yadav from Ujjain Uttar, Raghuraj Singh Chouradiya from Jawad and Yogendra Singh Thakur from lakhnadon.