The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win all 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh in the upcoming general elections, said former Prime Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has been nominated from the Vidisha seat.
Chouhan's name and other leaders were included in the first list of 195 candidates announced by the BJP in Delhi on Saturday. The party announced the names of 24 MP candidates.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the hearts of the people of Madhya Pradesh. The BJP will win all 29 seats. We will all fight together,” Chouhan told reporters at his residence on Saturday evening and shouted
slogan “Fir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar, Abki Baar 400 Paar”. He said that BJP leaders, including MP Prime Minister Mohan Yadav and state party president VD Sharma, held discussions on securing the election victory. “As a party worker, I will work with full strength,” he said.
Chouhan represented the high-profile Vidisha Lok Sabha seat for five terms before becoming chief minister in 2005. The constituency was previously represented by BJP stalwarts such as late Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1991), Sushma Swaraj (2009 and 2014) and newspaper publisher Ramnath Goenka (1971).
Chouhan last won the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat in 2004 but resigned after becoming chief minister. He is the sitting MLA from Budhni seat, which also falls under Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency.
BJP's Ramakant Bhargava is the sitting MP from Vidisha. In the state assembly polls held in November 2023, Chouhan won the Budhni seat by a record margin of 1.05 lakh votes. In the 2019 general elections, the BJP won 28 of the 29 seats in Parliament, while the Congress only managed to win Chhindwara seat.
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Published: Mar 3, 2024 09:10 AM IST