The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its fourth list of 57 candidates for Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to contest again from his traditional seat of Budhni.
State Home Minister Narottam Mishra will fight from the Datia seat.
Other prominent leaders figured in the fourth list are Govind Singh Rajput, Gopal Bhargava, Rajendra Shukla and Omprakash Sakhlecha.
With this, the BJP has announced candidates for 136 seats in the 230-member state assembly.
Polling in Madhya Pradesh will be held on November 17 while the counting of votes will take place on December 3.
The BJP released the first list of candidates on August 17 and the second list on September 25. Interestingly, the second list had featured three Union ministers—Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of State (MoS) for Food Processing Industries Prahlad Singh Patel, and Minister of State for Rural Development and Steel Faggan Singh Kulatse—and four MPs.
The state ministers who got poll tickets are:
Narottam Mishra (Datia)
Arvind Singh Bhadoria (Ater)
Vishvas Sarang (Narela, Bhopal)
Prayuman Singh Tomar (Gwalior)
Bharat Singh Kushwah (Gwalior Rural)
Bhupendra Singh (Khurai)
Kamal Patel (Harda)
Govind Singh Rajput (Surkhi)
Gopal Bhargava (Rehli)
Rahul Singh Lodhi (Khargapur)
Brajendra Pratap Singh (Panna)
Rajendra Shukla (Rewa)
Bisahulal Singh (Anuppur)
Meena Singh (Manpur)
Prabhuram Choudhary (Sanchi)
Vijay Shah (Harsud)
Prem Singh Patel (Barwani)
Rajvardhan Singh (Badnawar)
Tulsiram Silawat (Sanver)
Mohan Yadav (Ujjain South)
Jagdish Devda (Malhargarh)
Hardeep Singh Dang (Suwasara)
Ramkishore Kaware (Paraswada)
Om Prakash Saklecha (Jawad)
