Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections: Shivraj Singh Chouhan Repeats Budhni
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading landslide victory in Madhya Pradesh and senior party leader and incumbent Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won Budhni seat. Congress leader and former Chief Minister Kamal Nath is leading from Chhindwara.
Mr Chouhan won the seat with a margin of 10,4974 votes. The BJP leader secured 1,64,951 votes while trailing Indian National Congress (INC) candidate Vikram Mastal secured 59,977 votes. The counting for the state is still underway, but the ruling BJP was exceptional and maintained 100 seat margin with their rival Congress. The BJP has already started celebrations, but the Congress leaders haven’t responded yet.
The BJP was expecting an easy win looking back to the state’s previous history. The sitting Chief Minister, Mr Chouhan, is there in the office since 2005, except a two-year break in 2018 to 2020. He is the longest-serving CM of Madhya Pradesh (4 times) and also the national Vice-President of BJP – a steadfast labourer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Madhya Pradesh, one of the five Indian states which witnessed legislative assembly elections recently, went polling booths on November 17. Being a large state in terms of geography and population, the state has 53 districts in total along 10 divisions. The population of the state was over seven crores in terms of the 2011 census data.
According to the recent data provided by the Election Commission of India, the state had more than 5.5 crore voters who were eligible to exercise their franchise. It included 2.8 crore male and 2.7 crore female voters. The polling was held on November 17. The state, comparing to the previous elections had witnessed a rise in the polling percentage this year by 1.25 per cent. Previously it was 74.97 per cent and in recent election it rose to 76.22 per cent.
” We bow to the Janta Janardan. The results in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan indicate that the people of India are firmly with politics of good governance and development, which the BJP stands for”, wrote Prime Minister Narendra Modi on X (formerly Twitter). “I thank the people of these states for their unwavering support and assure them that we will keep working tirelessly for their well-being. A special thanks to the hardworking Party Karyakartas. Each of them is exemplary! They have worked tirelessly and highlighted our development agenda among the people”, he added.
We bow to the Janta Janardan.
The results in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan indicate that the people of India are firmly with politics of good governance and development, which the @BJP4India stands for.
I thank the people of these states for their unwavering…
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 3, 2023
