New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) has revealed its first record of 24 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh, that includes outstanding names corresponding to former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. The occasion has additionally made important modifications by changing Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur with Alok Sharma, a former mayor. The occasion’s announcement, made on Saturday, included a complete of 195 candidates.
Chouhan is about to return to Lok Sabha polls after practically twenty years, and can contest his sixth Parliamentary election from Vidisha, a seat that has been held by BJP stalwarts like late Atal Bihari Vajpayee (in 1991), Sushma Swaraj (in 2009 and 2014) and newspaper writer Ramnath Goenka (in 1971).
There was numerous hypothesis about Chhindwara, with no candidate declared but. Amidst rumours of Congress heavyweights Kamal Nath and his son defecting, the Naths earlier this week denied any such studies.
The BJP has repeated 13 sitting MPs in its record whereas introducing new faces for 11 seats, together with Morena, Gwalior, and Sagar.
The BJP’s dominance in Madhya Pradesh, having received 28 out of 29 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, units the stage for an fascinating electoral contest because the occasion prepares its record for the upcoming polls.
Sitting MP Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in Malegaon blast case, was dropped from Bhopal. Thakur, identified for her controversial statements, defeated Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh within the 2019 elections by a margin of three.65 lakh votes.
Candidates for 5 seats – Indore, Chhindwara, Balaghat, Ujjain and Dhar – are but to be introduced. Shivraj Singh Chouhan led the BJP to victory within the final 12 months’s Madhya Pradesh meeting elections, however was changed by Mohan Yadav as CM.
Union ministers Faggan Singh Kulaste and Virendra Singh Khatik had been fielded from their present constituencies. The seats the place new candidates had been introduced are Morena, Gwalior, Sagar, Bhopal, Damoh, Sidhi, Jabalpur, Hoshangabad, Ratlam, Vidisha and Guna.
The seats the place sitting MPs got one other probability embrace Bhind (Sandhya Rai), Tikamgarh (Union Minister Virendra Kumar), Khajuraho (state BJP president V D Sharma), Satna (Ganesh Singh), Rewa (Janardan Mishra), Shahdol (Himadri Singh), Mandla (union minister Faggan Singh Kulaste), Rajgarh (Rodmal Nagar), Dewas (Mahendra Singh Solanki), Mandsaur (Sudhir Gupta), Khargone (Gajendra Patel), Khandwa (Gyaneshwar Patil) and Betul (Durgadas Uikey).
In November 2023 meeting elections, the BJP had fielded seven MPs together with union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Prahlad Patel.
After profitable elections, Tomar, MP from Morena, turned Speaker of the meeting, whereas Patel, MP from Damoh, turned the minister within the state cupboard.
The MPs of Jabalpur (Rakesh Singh), Hoshangabad (Rao Uday Pratap Singh) and Sidhi (Riti Pathak) additionally received meeting elections, therefore, new candidates had been fielded from these seats. Rakesh Singh and Rao Uday Pratap Singh are actually ministers within the state cupboard.
MPs from Gwalior (Vivek Shejwalkar), Sagar (Rajbahadur Singh), Bhopal (Pragya Singh Thakur), Ratlam (Guman Singh Damor), Vidisha (Ramakant Bhargava) and Guna (KP Singh Yadav) didn’t determine within the record.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, 53, was fielded from Guna Lok Sabha seat, the place he, as a Congress candidate, had misplaced to the BJP’s Ok P Singh Yadav in 2019. Scindia had represented this seat 4 occasions, and is at the moment a Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 64, represented Vidisha 5 occasions earlier than turning into chief minister in November 2005. He’s at the moment MLA from Budhni meeting phase which falls beneath the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat.
