The Congress on October 19 late evening released its second list of candidates for 85 seats and replaced three earlier announced candidates for the upcoming Assembly election in Madhya Pradesh.
In the fresh list, the party named Arvind Singh Lodhi from Pichhore in place of Shailendra Singh, and former Assembly Speaker during the 15-month Kamal Nath government Narmada Prasad Prajapati from Gotegaon replacing Shekhar Chaudhary. Mr. Prajapati’s name was missing from the first list of 144 candidates the party released on Sunday.
The party also replaced Awadhesh Nayak, a ex-BJP strongman, with former MLA Rajendra Bharti on Datia Assembly segment against State Home Minister Narottam Mishra.