Kailash Vijayvargia: The BJP Strategist And Gamechanger (Image:Facebook/Kailash Vijayvargia)
Kailash Vijayvargia was in shock and expressed his ambiguity while declared by his party as a candidate for the 2023 Madhya Pradesh state legislative assembly elections. Being the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) national general secretary, Mr Vijayvargia’s name was revealed in the second list of BJP candidates for the state election. He then said that he was told only two days prior to the release of candidate list about contesting in the polls and was initially hesitant.
Kailash Vijayvargia took the responsibility after the central leadership convinced him and stated that he will “follow what the party wants from” him. Mr Vijayvargia added that the entire team of BJP was all set to work collectively in the elections and later in the government which they were expected to form. He was fielded from the Indore-1 constituency and was competing against the Congress candidate Sanjay Shukla, who currently hold the office. Madhya Pradesh went polling booths on November 12. As said by the Election Commission of India, the votes will be counted and the results will be declared on December 3, 2023.
He was not chosen randomly, the six-time legislator and 12-year expertise as a state cabinet minister was a clear shot by the BJP to spark a rule change in Indore, disposing the incumbent Congress. For a political overturn, he is the right candidate. Because Kailash Vijayvargia was once the game-changer of BJP in the 2014 election. He was the in-charge of party’s election campaigns in Haryana then where the party registered its first win in the Haryana state assembly elections.
Kailash Vijayvargia was born on May 13, 1956 in Indore. He secured an LLB after completing a Bachelor of Science degree. Mr Vijayvargia started his political career through the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the right-wing student organization of RSS, in 1975. He became the Mayor of the Indore Municipal Corporation in 2000, and was nominated president of the South Asia Mayors’ Council in 2003.
Mr Vijayavargia is a six-time legislator who has never lost an assembly election and also worked as a state government cabinet minister for over 12 years before being elevated to the party’s central leadership. He was elected to the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly in 1990, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, and 2013.
It was in 2008, he became the state minister of Public Works, Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Administration and Development. He was given a portfolio of Religious Trusts, Endowment, and Rehabilitation on 1 July 2004. Mr Vijayvargiya again joined Babulal Gaur”s Council of Ministers as Public Works Minister on 27 August 2004. He was re-inducted into Shivraj Singh Chouhan”s Council of Ministers on 4 December 2005, as a Public Works, Information Technology, and Science & Technology Minister.
In the second cabinet under Shivraj Singh Chouhan (post-2008 elections), Vijayvargiya held portfolios of IT and Industries. In the third cabinet (post-2013 elections), he held the portfolio of Urban Development. Kailash Vijayvargia was assigned with the charge if the BJPs Haryana state assembly election in 2014, and the party won the state for the first time, ascending BJP’s tally from 4 to 47 seats. He was taken to the position of the National General Secretary of the BJP as well as the party’s leader for West Bengal in 2015. He was also included in the top 100 influential person list of India for year 2021.
