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One of them has been identified as Babita Narsu Gavde, 28, of Dhanora and a member of a Maoist Platoon No 15, while the identity of the second woman is yet to be ascertained.
Chief Minister Raman Singh is vying for a fourth consecutive term and his main opponent is BJP-turned-Congress leader Karuna Shukla, a niece of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Naxalites have asked voters to boycott the polls.
Sharma, a 35-year-old lighting assistant of DD News, and journalist Dhiraj Kumar survived miracously the attack.
Among the 37 candidates announced, three are women.
When the MPV carrying six personnel was around one km away from the camp, ultras triggered a powerful land mine blast.
Chhattisgarh will witness polls in two phases- on November 12 and 20.
According to the Election Commission, there are total 1.85 crore voters including 92.9 lakh men, 92.4 lakh women and 1,059 third-gender voters in the state.
In view of next month's Assembly polls, the security forces have intensified the patrolling in the interior forests of the Naxal-hit districts.
About 500 such people have been apprehended by the security forces in Chhattisgarh alone over the last one year, the CRPF chief has said.