Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla, who parted ways with the BJP in October and joined the Congress, is pitted against Lakhanlal Sahu, who has been fielded by her former party, in Bilaspur. The seat had been won in 2009 by former union minister Dilip Singh Judeo, who died in August last year.
Constituency: Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Party: Congress
Age: 64
Education: Post Graduate
Assets: Rs. 30,261,209