BJP releases fourth list of candidates for Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections; Brijendra Singh replaces Kusum Mehdele from Panna

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released the fourth list consisting of seven candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections. The party has fielded Prahlad Lodhi for its constituency in Pawai, Prem Shankar Verma from Seoni-Malwa, Bahadur Singh Chauhan from Mahidpur and Devilal Dhakar from the Garoth constituency.

The BJP has also fielded Brijendra Singh from Panna replacing Kusum Mehdele, who represents the constituency at present.

Bharatiya Janata Party releases fourth list of seven candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly elections. pic.twitter.com/0TfajoCQgJ — ANI (@ANI) November 8, 2018

The list also consists of one Scheduled Tribe from the Lakhnadon constituency for which it has fielded Vijay Uike and the only woman candidate in the list is Fatima Rasul Siddaki for the Bhopal Uttar constituency.

Earlier on Thursday, the BJP released its third list of 32 candidates. In the list, the party included general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya`s son Akash Vijayvargiya from the Indore-3 constituency and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Babulal Gaur`s daughter-in-law Krishna Gour from Govindpura constituency.

The list includes six Scheduled Castes, two Scheduled Tribes and five women. Among others are Shivmangal Singh Tomar, Rakesh Choudhary, Rajni Prajapati, Anil Jain, Lakhan Patel, Shiv Bahadur Chandel, Moti Kashyap, Babulal Verma, and Malini Gour.

Previously, the BJP had released two lists of 177 and 17 candidates respectively for the assembly polls, fielding Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Budhni seat.

Polls to the 230-member MP Assembly house will be held on November 28 while the results will be announced on December 11.