BJP's first candidate list for Haryana out, Nayab Saini to contest from Ladwa
Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini will be vying for the Ladwa seat as per the BJP's first candidate list for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections, that it released on Wednesday.
Haryana minister Anil Vij has been fielded from the Ambala Cantt Assembly constituency while BJP Rajya Sabha MP Kiran Choudhury's daughter Shruti Chaudhury has got the party ticket to contest the Tosham seat, a party release said.
Meanwhile, Devendra Babli, Ram Kumar Gautam and Anup Dhanak, three former MLAs from Dushyant Chautala's Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), have got the BJP ticket from Tohana, Safidon and Uklana Assembly segments, respectively.
Some of the other key figures that have been given an opportunity to represent the BJP in the Haryana Assembly election include, former BJP MP Sunita Duggal from Ratia, former BJP Lok Sabha MP Kuldeep Bishnoi's son Bhavya Bishnoi from Adampur, and Aarti Singh, daughter of Union Minister of Planning, Statistics and Programme Implementation Rao Inderjit Singh, from Ateli.
The names of the candidates were discussed and finalised in a BJP meeting that was chaired by the party's national president, JP Nadda on August 29.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other members of the BJP's Central Election Committee were also present.
