Wrestlers Yogeshwar, Babita in BJP's Haryana candidate list: Arun Singh

Putting an end to days of speculations, the BJP on Monday finally announced its candidate list for the October 21 Haryana Assembly elections.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will be fighting from his present Karnal seat, while wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, who joined the BJP last week, is the nominee from the Baroda assembly seat.

Sandeep Singh, the former captain of the Indian hockey team who joined the BJP along with Dutt, has been given ticket from Pihua, while wrestler Babita Phogat, who had joined the BJP earlier, will be contesting from Dadri.

State BJP chief Subhash Barala is being fielded from Tohana.

While 38 sitting MLAs are being repeated by the party, 7 others have been replaced.

Two candidates from the Muslim community has been given the ticket this time by the saffron party.