The Congress Party has released the first list of 144 candidates for the Madhya Pradesh elections, including Chhindwara's Kamal Nath.

On Saturday, Madhya Pradesh Congress President Kamal Nath and other party leaders met at the AICC office in New Delhi to finalise candidates for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections. (ANI)

On Sunday, the Congress party released its first list of 144 candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, which includes state unit president and former chief minister Kamal Nath of Chhindwara. Jaivardhan Singh, the son of former chief minister Digvijaya Singh, has been nominated for the Raghigath seat. He served as a minister in the previous Kamal Nath government, which fell apart in March 2021 when 22 sitting Congress MLAs resigned and joined the BJP under the leadership of Jyotiraditya Scindia.

The announcement was made the day after the party's Central Election Committee met at the AICC office in New Delhi to select the final candidates.

During "Pitru Paksha," the time when Hindus pay respect to their ancestors, Nath had stated that the Congress will declare its candidates for the assembly elections. Pitru Paksha ended on Sunday, and the fortunate Navratri holiday officially began.

Out of the 230 assembly districts in the state, 136 have already had candidates from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced.

Election day in the state is November 17, and the results will be tallied on December 3.

Here's the list of 144 candidates for Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections:

The first list of 30 candidates from the Congress was also made public, along with a second list of 55 candidates for the Telangana assembly elections scheduled for next month. In Chhattisgarh, the party ran both Bhupesh Baghel, the chief minister, in the Ambikapur assembly seat and T S Singh Deo, the deputy chief minister.

Anumala Revanth Reddy, the state unit chairman for the Congress party, ran for the Kodangal assembly seat in Telangana, while Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu, the leader of the CLP, ran for the Madhira-SC seat.

While Telangana assembly elections will take place on November 30, Chhattisgarh assembly elections will be held in two stages on November 7 and November 17.