From BSP To Congress: Guddu Raja Bundela And His Lok Sabha Debut From Sagar (image:facebook.com/GudduRajaINC/)In the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Chandrabhushan Singh Bundela alias Guddu Raja Bundela, is the Congress candidate fielded from the Sagar constituency in Madhya Pradesh. The constituency has been reserved for Scheduled Tribes.
Guddu Raja Bundela comes from an influential political family in Bundelkhand. His father, Sujan Singh Bundela, was a two-time Congress MP from the Jhansi Lok Sabha.
Guddu Raja was associated with the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) and touted as a powerful leader in the party. Ahead of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections in 2023, he joined Congress along with hundreds of supporters and referred to it as “homecoming.”
Earlier, Guddu Raja was active in the political arena of Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur; now he is focused entirely on Madhya Pradesh.
Sagar Lok Sabha seat is one of the most important seats in Bundelkhand and should be held as a safe seat for the BJP. Sagar was once a Congress bastion, but slowly it turned into a BJP stronghold. From 1996 onwards, the BJP candidate emerged victorious in the election.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s Rajbahadur Singh won the seat by defeating Congress nominee Prabhu Singh Thakur by a margin of 305542 votes.
In the upcoming elections, the saffron party has decided to field Lata Wankhede. Interestingly, for the first time, the party has decided to contest a woman candidate from the Sagar Lok Sabha constituency.