Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Two former chief ministers of the state, are eyeing to return to Lok Sabha after a long time hole, from neighbouring constituencies within the state. 5-time MP from Vidisha, BJP’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan eyes a return to Parliament from the identical seat 20 years later, whereas his predecessor on CM’s chair Congress’ Digvijaya Singh (who final received Rajgarh seat in 1991) will tackle Chouhan’s loyalist and second-time sitting MP Rodmal Nagar from Rajgarh.
On each seats, the elections shall be held within the third part (Could 7) and home the house meeting segments of the 2 former CMs. Whereas the Rajgarh constituency homes Guna district’s Raghogarh seat (received since 2013 by Singh’s ex-minister son Jaivardhan Singh), the Vidisha constituency homes the Budhni meeting section from the place Chouhan is the sixth-time sitting MLA.
The Congress, nonetheless, hasn’t named its candidate until now to tackle Chouhan from Vidisha. Although Chouhan and Singh are contesting from separate however adjoining seats, Chouhan is prone to marketing campaign proactively in opposition to Singh, in assist of his loyalist Rodmal Nagar, who shouldn’t be solely pitted in opposition to the Congress veteran however may additionally should face inner sabotage, as a big part of the organisation in three districts forming a part of the seat weren’t supportive of celebration ticket to him. The Rajgarh seat homes eight meeting segments of three districts- Rajgarh, Guna and Agar-Malwa.
The seat has been received seven occasions by members of the ex-CM’s household, together with Singh himself in 1984 and 1991 and by youthful brother Laxman Singh 5 occasions between 1999 and 2004 (as BJP candidate in 2004). Such has been an affect within the constituency that he bought his brother and sitting BJP MP brother Laxman Singh lose as saffron celebration candidate in 2009 to Congress candidate Narayan Singh Amlabe.
The battle this time isn’t going to be simple for the sitting BJP MP Rodmal Nagar, significantly as Singh has hinted that it might be his final LS election as a candidate. It’s believed that although the Rajgarh contest shall be a tricky one this time, nonetheless, given the form of PM Narendra Modi-powered wave the BJP is driving on, the septuagenarian ex-CM could discover it onerous to duplicate the magic from the identical seat as he did in 1984 and 1991.
With the form of assist that the BJP at present enjoys throughout the constituency, significantly among the many feminine voters after the Ram Temple consecration in Ayodhya, the competition isn’t going to be simple for Singh now, significantly because the RSS-BJP employees will attempt onerous to rake up his anti-Hindu statements of the previous.