Assembly Elections 2018: BJP releases first list of candidates for the upcoming polls in Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Mizoram

The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has today released the names of candidates who will be contesting election from the state of Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Mizoram in the upcoming State Assembly polls of 2018.

The BJP released the first list of 177 candidates who will be appearing for the Madhya Pradesh elections. Chief Minister of MP, Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be contesting from Budhni and is the CM face for the ruling party. The state minister Narottam Mishra will contest from Datia and Yashodhara Raje Scindia will be contesting the polls from Shivpuri.

The BJP has also released a list of 24 candidates for the Mizoram election and 28 candidates for the Telangana assembly elections, scheduled for next month.

The upcoming polls of the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh will be the litmus test for the ruling BJP, which is at the high risk of anti-incumbency in all the three Hindi belt states, where BJP cannot afford losing any of them due to the Lok Sabha polls schedules for next year.

These three state elections will have a spill over effect on the Lok Sabha polls in 2019 and certainly, as per the latest opinion polls, the BJP is set lose around 70-100 seats in the Hindi belt.

The cover-up for these seats will come from the north-east and the south, where BJP has announced its presence and that too with a bang. Out of the seven sisters of the east, the BJP’s NEDA (North-East Democratic Alliance), a part of the NDA is ruling 5 of them.

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