Raipur
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday announced its candidates for all 10 Mayor posts in Chhattisgarh. Urban body elections will be held in one phase while panchayat elections are to be held in three phases. Elections will be held in next month. Former MP Madhusudan Yadav got a ticket for the post of Mayor from Rajnandgaon and Meenal Choubey from Raipur. Alka Baghmar has been fielded from Durg, Pooja Vidhani from Bilaspur, Sanjay Pandey from Jagdalpur and Manjusha Bhagat from Ambikapur. Jagdish Ramu Rohra has been made the party’s candidate for the post of Mayor in Dhamtari, Ram Naresh Rai from Chirmiri, Sanju Devi Rajput from Korba and Jeevardhan Chauhan from Raigad. As soon as the list of BJP is released, the workers have started appearing in enthusiasm. All the candidates have thanked the party for being made the candidate for the post of Mayor.
The names of the candidates for the post of Mayor were announced: State BJP chief Kiran Singh Dev announced the names of the candidates at the press conference. Madhusudan Yadav, who got the ticket for the post of Mayor, has been a councilor and mayor in Rajnandgaon in the east. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he was elected MP from Rajnandgaon constituency. After this, the party fielded Madhusudan Yadav for the seat of Rajnandgaon Mayor in the 2014 urban body elections but he lost. In 2018, he lost the assembly elections from Dongargaon.
BJP list released
Raipur to Meenal Choubey Maidan: Meenal Choubey, who came to the ground for the post of Mayor in Raipur Municipal Corporation, is the outgoing councilor and leader of the opposition in the Municipal Corporation. Jeevavardhan Chauhan, who came to the fray for the post of Mayor in Raigad Municipal Corporation, is the secretary of the Scheduled Caste Unit of the State BJP. They run tea and paan shops in Raigad. Elections of 173 civilian bodies with 10 municipal corporations, 49 city councils and 114 nagar panchayats will be held in the same phase on February 11, while three -tier panchayat elections will be held in three phases on 17, 20 and 23 February Will be organized.
How is the performance of parties: In the last urban body elections held in 2019-2020, the then ruling Congress in the state got the post of Mayor in all 10 municipal corporations. Last time the mayor elections were held indirectly in which the public used to choose the councilors directly and then the councilor used to choose the mayor. The direct method was introduced by the then Bhupesh Baghel government in 2019. This time Vishnu Dev Sai Sarkar has restored the previous system under which people will vote directly to choose the mayor.
Candidates for the Municipal Corporation of Bharatiya Janata Party mayor:
Raipur (General, Women) – Meenal Choubey
Durg (OBC, Woman) – Alka Baghmar
Rajnandgaon (General, Free) – Madhusudan Yadav
Dhamtari (general, free) – Jagdish Ramu Rohra
Jagdalpur (General, Open) – Sanjay Pandey
Raigad (SC, Open) – Jeevardhan Chauhan
Korba (General, Women) – Sanju Devi Rajput
Bilaspur (OBC, Open) – Pooja Vidhani
Ambikapur (ST, Open) – Manjusha Bhagat
Chirmiri (general, free) – Ram Naresh Rai
Bharatiya Janata Party Chhattisgarh Municipality Presidential candidate:
Gobra-Nawapara OBC (Women)-Omkumari Sanjay Sahu
Tilda-Navara OBC (Open)-Chandrakala Verma
Arang – Dr. Sandeep Jain
Temple Hasaud Aja (Open) – Sandeep Joshi
Abhanpur Aja (Open) – Shivnarayan Baghel
Mahasamund – Dr. Vimal Chopra
Bagbahara Aja (Open) – Shankar Tandi
Saraipali General (Women) – Saraswati Chandra Kumar Patel
Balodabazar – Ashok Jain
Simga – Shivdhari Dewangan
Gariaband – Rikhiram Yadav
Ahiwara OBC (Free) – Natwar Copper
Poor OBC (woman) – Meena Verma
Amleshwar – Dayanand Sonkar
Balod General (Women) – Pratima Chaudhary
Dallirajhra OBC (Open) – Toran Lal Sahu
Bemetara OBC (Free) – Vijay Sinha
Dongargarh Aja (Open) – Raman Dongre
Pandaria Aja (Women) – Manjula Devi Quran
Takhatpur General (Women) – Vandana Bala Singh
Ratanpur – Lavkush Kashyap
Bodri General (Women) – Dev Kumari Pandey
Pendra – Ritesh Farmania
Gourela – Mukesh Dubey
Mungeli – Shailesh Pathak
Lormi OBC (Free) – Sujit Verma
Janjgir-Naila Aja (Women)-Chitralekha Garhwal
Champa – Pradeep Namdev
Akaltara Aja (Women) – Shanti Bharat
Sakti – Chirag Aggarwal
Deepka – Rajendra Singh Rajput
Katghora OBC (Free) – Atma Ram Patel
Bankimongra General (Women) – Soni Kumari Jha
Kharsia – Kamal Garg
Balrampur Ajja (Open) – Lodhi Ram Ekka
Ramanujganj – Raman Aggarwal
Surajpur OBC (Women) – Devanti Sahu
Jashpur Nagar Sazja (Open) – Arvind Bhagat
Manendragarh OBC (Women) – Pratima Yadav
Kondagaon OBC (Open) – Narpati Patel
Narayanpur Ajja (Open) – Indra Prasad Baghel
Kanker – Arun Kaushik
Kirandul General (Women) – Ruby Shailendra Singh
Bade Bacheli OBC (Free) – Raju Jayaswal
Dantewada ST (woman) – Payal Gupta
Bijapur Ajja (woman) – Geeta Som Pujari
Sukma Ajja (free) – Hunga Makami
The Bharatiya Janata Party had earlier released the list of candidates for the post of Nagar Panchayat President for the urban body elections 2025 in Chhattisgarh.
