The Swabhiman Manch here on Monday declared its seven candidates, including two former ministers of Jogi regime, DP Dhritlahare and Ganguram Baghel and Urvashi Sahu, daughter of the late Tarachand Sahu from Durg rural area, for the forthcoming assembly election.
The party said that the name of remaining candidates would be declared in September.
It claimed that the ticket distribution was made on the basis of public mandate, on the other hand, president of the party, Deepak Sahu has expressed his willingness to fight the election against chief minister Raman Singh from Rajnandgaon, but a final decision on it is yet to be taken.
Out of the seven candidates declared by the main party of the third front, the Swabhiman Manch, Ganguram Baghel, who was PHE minister in the Jogi Government and joined the Manch recently, will fight the election from Aarang, DP Dhritlahare, who was forest minister earlier has been made candidate from Nawagarh.
Earlier, Ganguram Baghel was MlA with BJP and after Jogi came to power, he joined the Congress and become minister.
Again when the BJP was elected to power, Baghel continuously made efforts to join BJP, but as he was not included in the party, he took the membership of Swabhiman Manch, last week. last time, hefought the election from Aarang as independent candidate, but had to face defeat.
Similarly, before joining the Jogi ministry, DP Dhritlahare was elected to the assembly as independent candidate. However, in the last two elections he had to face defeat. Since last two years, he has been the national vice-president of Swabhiman Manch.
Similarly, Rajendra Sahu will be fielded from Durg city, Urvashi Sahu from Durg rural, Somnath Uike from Anthagarh, Ramkumar Gargav from Mungeli and lekhram Sinha from Kurud.
According to party secretary Rajkumar Gupta, in all probability the candidates fielded by the party would win the election from their respective constituency.
All of them are continuously active in their areas, he added.