Chhattisgarh urban body polls: Congress announces candidates for all 10 mayoral seats
The Hindu
Congress announces candidates for all 10 mayoral posts in Chhattisgarh ahead of upcoming urban body elections in February.
The opposition Congress on Monday (January 27, 2025) announced its candidates for all the 10 mayoral posts in Chhattisgarh, the elections for which will be held along with the other urban bodies in the state next month.
Incumbent mayors Dr Ajay Tirkey and Janki Katju have been fielded from Ambikapur and Raigarh, respectively, former MLA Dr Vinay Jaiswal from Chirmiri, Dipti Pramod Dubey from Raipur, Premlata Poshan Sahu from Durg, Pramod Nayak from Bilaspur and Usha Tiwari from Korba.
Congress state unit in-charge general secretary (organisation and administration) Malkeet Singh Gaindu is the party's candidate for the mayor's post in Jagdalpur, Nikhil Dwivedi in Rajnandgaon and Vijay Golchha in Dhamtari.
Mr. Gaindu released the list of candidates following approval from the party's state election committee in the morning.
Mr. Tirkey, the two-term mayor of the Ambikapur Municipal Corporation, won the post for the first time in 2014-15.
The Congress fielded him in the 2023 assembly election from Ramanujganj seat where he suffered defeat.
Vinay Jaiswal served as an MLA from Manendragarh seat in the previous state assembly (2018-2023). His wife Kanchan Jaiswal is currently mayor of the Chirmiri Municipal Corporation.
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