YC polls: 39 candidates file nominations for prez post

Raipur, December 04, 2012

About 39 candidates including Uttam Vasudev from Ajit Jogi faction and Deepak Mishra from state Congress organisational camp filed nomination papers for YC president post at Congress Bhawan on Tuesday. Besides, the aspirants aiming to contest Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha president posts also filed nominations. 

The YC polls, which has rather become ‘battle of pride’ for both Jogi and organisational camps, completed its second stage with Tuesday’s nominations. The polling for VS, LS and state panels will be jointly held on December 17 and 18. 

As scheduled, Vasudev reached Congress Bhawan along with Amit Jogi, Yogesh Tiwari and others in the form of a rally from Jogi’s residence. On the other hand Mishra also displayed power of the organisational camp by taking out similar rally from Ambedkar Bhawan to party’s state office. 

Meanwhile, a slew of Jogi supporters, candidates from organisational camp and independent aspirants too filed nomination papers for YC president post. The Jogi supporters who filed nomination papers were - Sandeep Sahu, Abhishek Modi, Ashok Sonwani, Savita Pawar and Veena Bhimte.

Similarly, the prominent candidates from organisational camp who filed nominations for YC chief post were Dilip Singh Chouhan, Pankaj Mishra, Alok Pandey, Sandeep Tiwari, Ritu Mishra, Amit Sharma and Anwar Hussein. 

Besides, about 16 candidates filed nominations for Raipur LS president post including Sunil Kukreja and Sonu Sharma from Jogi faction and Amit Sharma from organisational camp.

Similarly, several candidates from Jogi and organisational camps have filed nominations for president post of four different VS areas of Raipur. The prominent candidates include Kishan Bazari (organisational camp) and Sushil Agrawal (Jogi camp) – Raipur West, Preet Sahu (organisational camp) - Raipur Rural, Sheikh Musheer (organisational camp) and Sanjeev Shukla (Jogi camp) – Raipur North and Indrajeet Singh (Jogi camp) – Raipur South.

Notably, there will be ten posts each for VSLS and state committees (president - 1, vice president - 1, general secretaries – 8).

In state and VS committees, the post of president, vice president and general secretary (three posts) will be open for all categories while remaining each of five posts of general secretary will be reserved for SC/ST, OBC, minority, women, SC/ST and women.

In LS committees, the post of president will either be open for all categories or reserved for SC/ST. Similarly, the post of vice president and general secretary (three posts) will also be open for all categories and remaining each of five posts of general secretary will be reserved for SC/ST, OBC, minority, women, SC/ST and women.