Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections: BJP Releases Candidate List With 92 Names
The ruling party at the centre – BJP – on Saturday released their candidate list for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2023. The list incorporates 92 names and is said approved by the party’s Central Election Committee.
Madhya Pradesh is a Bharatiya Janata Party dominant state, where Congress expects a conversion this year. The state, as declared by the Union Election commission, will go to the booths on November 17, 2023. Counting is scheduled on December 3, 2023, and the election will be conducted in a single phase in all its 230 assembly constituencies.
The BJP has already announced candidates for 228 out of the 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh including those they lost in last elections. According to the recent list, former Rajya Sabha MP Maya Singh will contest from Gwalior East and current minister Usha Thakur has been fielded from Dr Ambedkar Nagar-Mhow assembly seat.
भारतीय जनता पार्टी की केंद्रीय चुनाव समिति ने मध्य प्रदेश में होने वाले आगामी विधानसभा चुनाव-2023 के लिए निम्नलिखित नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति प्रदान की। (2/2) pic.twitter.com/CKGwe5vTrC
— BJP (@BJP4India) October 21, 2023
A ticket has been given to Mausam Bisen from Balaghat and Pradeep Jaiswal from Waraseoni. The party reportedly denied around 20 sitting MLAs including OPS Bhadoria, Jabalpur three-time MLA Nandini Maravi, Yashodhara Raje Scindia and Gaurishankar Bisen tickets this time.
Madhya Pradesh, where the recent elections were all outright battles between the ruling BJP and Congress, is on high surveillance as this edition is also anticipated to be stiff encounter between the two parties. Congress seems more confident as backed by the newly contrived opposition alliance INDIA, while BJP affirmed to retain the government despite any cost. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the poll-bound state a few times and inaugurated several developmental projects.
The last assembly elections for Madhya Pradesh were conducted on November 28, 2018. In the election, Congress emerged as the single-largest party with 114 seats among the 230 constituencies, and was a direct political battle between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC). INC wasn’t able to win at least one assembly election in the state after 2003, while BJP secured three consecutive terms.
In the 2018 election, INC’s Kamal Nath was chosen as the state Chief minister. But however, in 2020, the Supreme Court of India issued a 24-hour notice to the Kamal Nath government on a petition filed by the State’s ex-CM and BJP leader Shivraj Chouhan in which Mr Chouhan sought a floor test in the state legislative assembly immediately.
Madhya Pradesh witnessed a political overturn in 2020 as Mr Chouhan took oath as the Chief Minister of the state once again (for the fourth time) on March 23 after 22 Congress MLA’s resigned along with Jyotiraditya Scindia resulting the collapse of Kamal Nath government. Shivraj Singh Chouhan is the current and longest serving Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
In 2018, BJP’s vote share was recorded 41.6% while Congress stood with 41.5% matching the saffron party’s vote share, falling just back to the majority mark.
