Lok Sabha Elections Phase 3 polling tomorrow: Shivraj ‘Mamaji’ Chouhan’s road to Delhi goes through BJP bastion Vidisha

Vidisha volition ballot successful the third phase of Lok Sabha elections connected Tuesday, May 7. 

Chouhan is not caller to Vidisha. He has entered the fray from the spot aft 2 decades. Chouhan won the Vidisha Lok Sabha spot for the archetypal clip successful 1991 and continued to triumph it consecutively until 2004.

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In 2005, Chouhan became the Madhya Pradesh CM for the archetypal time. He continued arsenic the CM for the adjacent 3 presumption until December 2023, starring the BJP to different resounding triumph successful the authorities assembly polls. The saffron enactment replaced Chouhan with Mohan Yadav arsenic Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister. It was during his tenure arsenic Madhya Pradesh CM that Chouhan earned the title‘Mamaji' , chiefly due to the fact that of his government's payment schemes targeting women and girls. 

“This is my family. I americium not a politician. We combat and unrecorded unneurotic similar a family. There is nary neta, security, nothing. There are lone nephews and nieces, member and sisters. There is lone love," Shivraj Singh Chouhan told The Indian Express during his caller campaign.

Shivraj Chouhan Vs Pratap Bhanu Sharma 

In the conflict for Vidisha, Chouhan is up against Congress seasoned Pratap Bhanu Sharma, who has won the spot doubly before, successful 1980 and 1984. If Chouhan is backmost successful the Vidisha combat aft 2 decades, Sharma is successful the fray aft 33 years. Sharma was defeated by erstwhile Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee by implicit 1 lakh votes successful 1991 Lok Sabha elections. 

In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, BJP’s Ramakant Bhargava won the spot with a borderline of 5,03,084 votes defeating Congress’s Shailendra Patel. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, BJP’s Sushma Swaraj won the spot for the 2nd clip successful a row, defeating Congress campaigner Lakshman Singh by a borderline of 4 lakh votes.

Vidisha, a BJP Bastion

Vidisha is simply a BJP stronghold. The spot adjacent Bhopal has been represented by erstwhile Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in1991 and erstwhile External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj successful 2009 and 2014. The Congress won the spot doubly successful 1980 and 1984, some times by Pratap Bhanu Sharma.

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Many wrote disconnected Chouhan aft the BJP decided not to take him arsenic Chief Minister past year. However, successful 1 of the predetermination rallies successful Madhya Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who campaigned for the erstwhile CM, hinted astatine the imaginable inclusion of Chouhan successful his adjacent cabinet.

“As I person ever said, I americium a idiosyncratic of a disciplined party. I americium acceptable to abide by immoderate work fixed to maine by the party. As of now, I conscionable privation to go a subordinate of Parliament," Chouhan told Hindustan Times.

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Published: 06 May 2024, 02:03 PM IST