The State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) discussed the names of probable candidates in all the 29 lok Sabha constituencies here at the State Election Committee meeting in Bhopal on Wednesday.
The party would declare its list of candidates in New Delhi on Thursday. Senior leaders of the state have left for New Delhi with the names and panels to put forth them in the Central Election Meeting (CEC) scheduled in New Delhi on Thursday. After a brainstorming session of State Election Committee (SEC) here on Thursday the party reached on consensus on a dozen lok Sabha seats while panel has been formed on remaining seventeen seats. The decision for Bhopal seat has been left with the party high command.
The SEC meeting that started two hours behind schedule lasted till late evening. BJP general secretary in-charge Ananth Kumar, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, state president Narendra Singh Tomar, national vice president Prabhat Jha, former chief minister Kailash Joshi, State organisational general secretary Arvind Menon, Vikram Verma, Sumitra Mahajan, Satyanarayan Jatiya, Krishanmurari Moghe, Bhupendra Singh and Ramkrishna Kusmaria were present in the meeting.
The names that were cleared by the SEC include names of party State president Narendra Singh Tomar from Gwalior, leader of opposition in lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj from Vidisha and senior leader Sumitra Mahajan from Indore. The proposed names would be sent to the Central Election Committee (CEC) of the party for endorsement and official announcement of names on Thursday in New Delhi.
Ananth Kumar, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Narendra Singh Tomar and Arvind Menon would leave for New Delhi with the names and panels finalised in the SEC meeting. Sources from the BJP informed that the SEC has given its consent to shift Tomar from his present seat Morena to Gwalior.
The names of the leaders who have been included as single panel in the constituencies are- Sushma Swaraj from Vidisha, Sumitra Mahajan from Indore, Narendra Singh Tomar from Gwalior, Ajay Shah from Betul, Virendra Khatik from Tikamgarh, Rao Udaipratap Singh from Hoshangabad, Nandkumar Singh Chouhan from Khandwa, Raghunandan Sharma from Mandsaur, Hari Singh Yadav from Guna, Bhagirath Prasad from Bhind, Choudhary Chandrabhan Singh from Chhindwara, Mausam Nitin from Balaghat and Dalpat Singh parasite from Shahdol.
The constituencies where more than one names have been included are- Rewa (Rajendra Shukla, Janardan Mishra, Pragya Tripathi), Sidhi (KK Singh, Ajay Pratap Singh, Govind Mishra), Satna (Ganesh Singh, Shankarlal Tiwari, Nagendra Singh), Khajuraho (Ramkrishna kusmariya, Jitendra Singh Bundela, Nandita Pathak), Sagar (Saroj Singh, Rajneesh Agrawal, Sudha Jain, laxminarayan Yadav), Damoh (Prahlad Patel, Abhishek Bhargav, Shivraj lodhi), Dhar (Mukam Singh Rawat, Savitri Thakur, Mukam Singh Ningwal, Yashwant Darbar), Morena (Anup Mishra, Choudhary Rakesh Singh, Gajraj Singh SIkarwar), Khargone (Antar Singh Arya, Subhash Patel, Premsingh Patel, Gajendra Patel), Rajgarh (Roadmal Nagar, Raghunandan Sharma), Dewas (Manohar Untwal, Thavarchand Gehlot), Ujjain (Thavarchand Gehlot, Jagdeesh Deora), Mandla (Shivraj Shah, Faggan Singh Kulaste), Jabalpur (Rakesh Singh, Ajay Vishnoi), Ratlam (Nirmala Bhuria, Dilip Singh Bhuria, Bahadur Singh Bhamore) and Bhopal (Anil Dave, Alok Sharma, Krishna Gaur or any other senior party leader).