Polling for the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly will be held on November 17. Results will be declared on December 3, along with Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoramall of which will also vote in assembly polls on different dates next month.
Mastal, who played the role of Hanuman in Anand Sagar's 2008 TV serial Ramayan, will contest the elections from Budhni in Sehore district against chief minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Mastal joined the Congress in July this year.
State Congress president and former chief minister Kamal Nath will be contesting from his home constituency Chhindwara, while the party has also fielded senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh's son Jaivardhan Singh and brother Lakshman Singh from Raghogarh and Chachoura, respectively, in Guna district.
The party has named 69 of its 96 sitting legislators and dropped three MLAs, including former assembly speaker ND Prajapati, while 39 are first-timers. The Congress list also includes 36 of those candidates that had lost the 2018 assembly polls or subsequent bypolls in the state.
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