Chhattisgarh Congress Candidate List 2024: After BJP, Congress has also released its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections and has announced the names of candidates in 6 out of 11 seats in Chhattisgarh. Congress has given ticket to former Chief Minister and Patan MLA Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat. Bhupesh Baghel will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Rajnandgaon seat. In fact, it was being speculated for a long time that Bhupesh Baghel could be given the MP candidate ticket. Today (8 March) evening, Congress Party has fielded him from Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat.
Tickets given from Rajnandgaon on the basis of caste equation
Many meanings are being made for fielding former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon seat. In fact, Rajnandgaon is called the stronghold of BJP.
This is the home district of former Chief Minister and current Assembly Speaker Raman Singh. BJP’s Santosh Pandey had won from this Lok Sabha seat by a huge margin in the last election and he has once again been given the ticket from this seat. Due to the election of former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel from this seat, it is believed that like BJP, Congress is also talking about giving him ticket from this seat keeping in mind the caste equation.
According to the information, the population of OBC category is more than the general category in Rajnandgaon and Bhupesh Baghel also belongs to OBC category, hence Congress has given him ticket from Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat keeping in mind the caste equation.
Apart from this, due to Bhupesh Baghel being a big leader of Congress, the Congress high command is considering Bhupesh Baghel’s victory from this seat as certain and many other reasons are being given due to which the seat of Bhupesh Baghel has been finalized from Rajnandgaon. Now there is a contest in this seat between Bhupesh Baghel of Congress and Santosh Pandey, who was last MP from BJP.
Congress is gambling on big faces
In fact, former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is considered a very powerful leader in the Congress Party in Chhattisgarh and also at the Central level. Under his leadership, Congress formed the government in Chhattisgarh in the 2018 assembly elections, and he became the Chief Minister of the state. Bhupesh Baghel won the assembly elections five times. Although he lost in the 2008 assembly elections, and in the 2009 parliamentary elections too, he lost from Raipur seat, but in the 2013 and 2018 assembly elections, Bhupesh Baghel won the election from Patan assembly with a big lead.
There has been a stir in the political streets regarding giving ticket for the Lok Sabha elections to Bhupesh Baghel, who was also the President of the State Congress Committee from 2014 to 2019. He has been continuously contesting the Assembly elections. Big leaders of the Congress Party are taking it as a matter of course. That Bhupesh Baghel’s victory from Rajnandgaon seat is certain,
While BJP is also claiming its victory, on the other hand, regarding giving ticket to Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon seat, it is also being said that in the last Lok Sabha elections, Congress was able to win only 2 out of 11 seats in Chhattisgarh. In such a situation Lok Sabha Elections In order to get maximum Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh, the Congress high command is fielding big leaders of the state and is giving them Lok Sabha MP candidate tickets, which includes Bhupesh Baghel.
