Chhindwara (MP) campaign for the bypoll for Amarwara assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district ended on Monday night with Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and senior Congress leaders making last-minute efforts to attract voters in favor of their respective candidates.
Besides Yadav, a senior BJP politician, state Congress chief Jitu Patwari and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the assembly Umang Singhar were also involved in the election campaign on the last day before the 10th poll. July, which comes weeks after the Saffron Party achieved a clean victory. swept the Lok Sabha polls in the central state.
In all, nine candidates are in the fray in Amarwara, which is in Chhindwara district, the turf of Congress veteran Kamal Nath, but the main fight is likely to be between the grand old party and the ruling BJP.
Yadav, who faces the first electoral test after assuming office nearly seven months ago, addressed two election meetings to drum up support for BJP candidate Kamlesh Shah, promising rapid development of the tribal reserved assembly constituency. .
MLA Shah, a three-time Congress member, had switched to the BJP on March 29, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Chhindwara on April 19. He subsequently resigned from the state assembly, making it necessary to hold by-elections.
In the 2023 assembly elections, Shah, the then Congress candidate, defeated BJP candidate Monika Manmohan Shah Batti by a margin of 25,086 votes in Amarwara.
Before the election campaign ended at 6 pm, Patwari and Singhar held rallies in support of Congress candidate Dheeran Shah Invati and disparaged BJP candidate Kamlesh Shah, calling him a "traitor".
A tribal political group, the Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP), is also in play in the seat. Its candidate, Devraman Bhalavi, cannot be ruled out given that he had bagged around 22,000 votes in Amarwara, out of the 56,000 he got when he contested the April 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Chhindwara.
The GGP won Amarwara once in 2003.
The Congress has won the assembly seat nine times, while the BJP emerged victorious on three occasions - in 1972, 1990 and 2008.
Voting will begin at 7 am on July 10 and close at 6 pm, while the counting of votes will take place on July 13.
Notably, BJP candidate from Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency Banty Vivek Sahu gained a lead of over 15,000 votes in the Amarwara seat in the recently held general elections.
The BJP won all 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh.
Besides Yadav, a senior BJP politician, state Congress chief Jitu Patwari and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the assembly Umang Singhar were also involved in the election campaign on the last day before the 10th poll. July, which comes weeks after the Saffron Party achieved a clean victory. swept the Lok Sabha polls in the central state.
In all, nine candidates are in the fray in Amarwara, which is in Chhindwara district, the turf of Congress veteran Kamal Nath, but the main fight is likely to be between the grand old party and the ruling BJP.
Yadav, who faces the first electoral test after assuming office nearly seven months ago, addressed two election meetings to drum up support for BJP candidate Kamlesh Shah, promising rapid development of the tribal reserved assembly constituency. .
MLA Shah, a three-time Congress member, had switched to the BJP on March 29, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Chhindwara on April 19. He subsequently resigned from the state assembly, making it necessary to hold by-elections.
In the 2023 assembly elections, Shah, the then Congress candidate, defeated BJP candidate Monika Manmohan Shah Batti by a margin of 25,086 votes in Amarwara.
Before the election campaign ended at 6 pm, Patwari and Singhar held rallies in support of Congress candidate Dheeran Shah Invati and disparaged BJP candidate Kamlesh Shah, calling him a "traitor".
A tribal political group, the Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP), is also in play in the seat. Its candidate, Devraman Bhalavi, cannot be ruled out given that he had bagged around 22,000 votes in Amarwara, out of the 56,000 he got when he contested the April 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Chhindwara.
The GGP won Amarwara once in 2003.
The Congress has won the assembly seat nine times, while the BJP emerged victorious on three occasions - in 1972, 1990 and 2008.
Voting will begin at 7 am on July 10 and close at 6 pm, while the counting of votes will take place on July 13.
Notably, BJP candidate from Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency Banty Vivek Sahu gained a lead of over 15,000 votes in the Amarwara seat in the recently held general elections.
The BJP won all 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh.
