Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Full List of Congress Candidates – News18

The Congress on Wednesday announced 53 candidates for the ensuing Chhattisgarh Assembly elections which will be held in two phases on November 7 and 17.

The party has dropped several sitting MLAs in the state where it is seeking to retain power in Chhattisgarh under Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.

CM Baghel and his 12 cabinet colleagues and state Assembly Speaker Charandas Mahant will face the electoral test and the votes will be counted on December 3.

The filing of nominations for the first phase began on October 13.

20 constituencies are slated to go to polls in the first phase on November 7 while the second phase of polls will be held on November 17, covering 70 constituencies.

Congress Heavyweights

CM Baghel will contest from his traditional Patan seat and deputy CM TS Singh Deo from his Ambikapur seat, while Chhattisgarh assembly speaker Charan Das Mahant has been re-nominated from his Sakti seat.

Chhattisgarh Congress chief and Bastar Lok Sabha member Deepak Baij has been fielded from Chitrakot-ST seat.

The ministers who have been given tickets are – Tamradhwaj Sahu (Durg rural), Amarjeet Bhagat (Sitapur- ST), Umesh Patel (Kharsia), Jai Singh Agrawal (Korba), Shivkumar Dahariya (Arang-SC), Anila Bhendia (Dondi Lohara- ST), Ravindra Choubey (Saja), Mohammad Akbar (Kawardha), Kawasi Lakhma (Konta) and Mohan Lal Markam (Kondagaon).

Minister Guru Rudra Kumar, who contested the 2018 poll from Ahiwara seat (Durg district), has been fielded from Navagarh-SC constituency in the neighbouring Bemetara district.

Congress leader and Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation Chairman Girish Dewangan has been fielded from Rajnandgaon seat against Raman Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national vice president and former state chief minister.

Congress pitted party veteran Motilal Vora’s son Arun Vora again from Durg City.

Name of Constituency and Congress Candidates

1. Ambikapur – Tribhuvaneshwar Saran Singh Deo (T.S. Singh Deo)
2. Sitapur – ST – Amarjeet Bhagat
3. Kharsia – Umesh Patel
4. Korba – Jai Singh Agarwal
5. Sakti – Dr. Charan Das Mahant
6. Arang – SC – Dr. Shivkumar Dahariya
7. Dondi Lohara – ST – Anila Bhendia
8. Patan – Bhupesh Baghel
9. Durg-Rural – Tamradhwaj Sahu
10. Saja – Ravindra Choubey
11. Nawagarh – SC – Guru Rudra Kumar
12. Pandariya – Neelkanth Chandrawanshi
13. Kawardha – Mohd Akbar
14. Khairagarh – Yashoda Verma
15. Dongargarh – SC – Harshita Swami Baghel
16. Rajnandgaon – Girish Devangan
17. Dongargaon – Daleshwar Sahu
18. Khujji – Bhola Ram Sahu
19. Mohla-Manpur – ST – Indrashah Mandavi
20. Antagarh – ST – Roop Singh Potai
21. Bhanupratappur – ST – Savitri Mandavi
22. Kanker – ST – Shankar Dhruv
23. Keshkal – ST – Sant Ram Netam
24. Kondagaon – ST – Mohan Lal Markam
25. Narayanpur – ST – Chandan Kashyap
26. Bastar – ST – Lakheshwar Baghel
27. Chitrakot – ST – Deepak Baij
28. Dantewada ST – K Chavindra Mahendra Karma
29. Bijapur – ST – Vikram Mandavi
30. Konta – ST – Kawasi Lakhma
31. Bharatpur-Sonhat – ST – Gulab Singh Kamro
32. Manendragarh – Ramesh Singh
33. Premnagar – Khelsal Singh
34. Bhatgaon – Paras Nath Rajwade
35. Pratappur – ST – Rajkumari Marawi
36. Ramanujganj – ST – Dr. Ajay Tirkey
37. Samri – ST – Vijay Paikara
38. Lundra – ST – Dr. Pritam Ram
39. Jashpur – ST – Vinay Kumar Bhagat
40. Kunkuri – ST – U. D. Minj
41. Pathalgaon – ST – Rampukar Singh
42. Lailunga – ST – Vidyavati Sidar
43. Raigarh – Prakash Shakrajeet Naik
44. Sarangarh – SC – Uttari Jangde
45. Dharamjaigarh – ST – Laljeet Singh Rathiya
46. Rampur – ST – Phool Singh Rathiya
47. Katghora – Purshottam Kanwar
48. Pall-Tanakhar- ST – Duleshwari Sidar
49. Marwahi – ST – Dr. KK Dhruv
50. Kota – Atal Srivastav
51. Lormi – Thaneshwar Sahu
52. Mungeli – SC – Sanjit Banerjee
53. Takhatpur – Dr. Rashmi Ashish Singh
54. Bilha – Siyaram Kaushik
55. Bilaspur – Shailesh Pandey
56. Beltara – Vijay Kesarwani
57. Masturi – SC – Dilip Lahariya
58. Akaltara – Raghvendra Singh
59. Janjgir-Champa – Vyas Kashyap
60. Chandrapur – Ram Kumar Yadav
61. Jaijaipur – Baleshwar Sahu
62. Pamgarh – SC – Sheshraj Harbans
63. Besna – Devender Bahadur Singh
64. Khatari – Dwarkadhish Yadav
65. Bilaigarh – SC – Kavita Pran Lahare
66. Baloda Bazar – Shailesh Trivedi
67. Bhatapara – Inder Kumar Sao
68. Dharsiwa – Chhaya Verma
69. Raipur Rural – Pankaj Sharma
70. Raipur City West – Vikas Upadhyay
71. Raipur City South – Mahant Ram Sundar Das
72. Abhanpur – Dhanendra Sahu
73. Rajim – Amitesh Shukla
74. Bindranawargarh – ST – Janak Lal Dhruv
75. Kurud – Tarini Chandrakar
76. Sanjari Balod – Sangeeta Sinha
77. Gunderdehi – Kunwar Singh Nishad
78. Durg City – Arun Vora
79. Bhilai Nagar – Devendra Yadav
80. Vaishal Nagar – Mukesh Chandrakar
81. Ahiwara – SC – Nirmal Kosare
82. Bemetara – Ashish Kumar Chhabra
83. Jagdalpur – Jitin Jaiswal

2018 Elections

In the 2018 Chhattisgarh polls, the Congress registered a landslide victory by securing 68 seats in the 90-member House and comfortably forming government. The BJP was reduced to 15 seats, while the Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J) and the Bahujan Samaj Party had bagged 5 and 2 seats, respectively.