India News | MP: BJP Heading for Clean Sweep, Wins 19 Seats and Consolidates Margin in Rest 10; Scindia Bags Guna

Bhopal, Jun 4 (PTI) The ruling BJP seems heading for a sweeping victory in Madhya Pradesh, having clinched 19 of 29 Lok Sabha seats so far with Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Faggan Singh Kulaste, and Virendra Kumar emerging victorious.

The BJP is leading in 10 other seats with a margin of its candidates ranging from 63,000 to 8.21 lakh, as per the Election Commission of India website.

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Notably, the BJP has managed to breach the long-standing Congress citadel Chhindwara, which it failed to capture in the 2019 elections when it had won 28 seats.

If BJP manages to win all 29 seats, it will become the first political party to achieve such a feat after 40 years in Madhya Pradesh. In the undivided MP, the Congress had won all 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in 1984.

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This is the second time since 1952 that the BJP has won the Chhindwara seat, with BJP's Bunty Vivek Sahu defeating sitting MP Nakul Nath by a margin of 1,13,618 votes on Tuesday.

The saffron party had managed to win Chhindwara constituency for the first time 26 years ago when former chief minister and senior BJP leader Sunderlal Patwa defeated Kamal Nath in 1997 by-elections.

Sahu polled 6,44,738 votes and Nath, son of Congress Kamal Nath, bagged 5,31,120.

The most spectacular victory was registered by BJP's sitting MP from Indore, Shankar Lalwani, who bagged the seat by the potentially highest-ever margin of 11,75,092 votes.

The Indore contest also stood out as NOTA created a record with 2.18 lakh voters opting for the 'none of the above' option.

The Indore constituency had hit headlines after Congress' nominee Akshay Kanti Bam withdrew from the poll fray at the last moment, a move that forced the party out of the prestigious contest. Bam later joined the BJP.

Stung by Bam's move, the Congress appealed to voters to go for NOTA.

Among prominent candidates, Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Faggan Singh Kulaste, and Virendra Kumar emerged victorious from Guna, Mandla and Tikamgarh constituencies, respectively.

In Vidisha, former MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is leading by a margin of 8.21 lakh votes over his Congress rival Pratapbhanu Sharma.

In Rajgarh, Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh is trailing by 1.45 lakh votes against his nearest BJP rival Rodmal Nagar.

Madhya Pradesh BJP president Vishnu Dutt Sharma won the Khajuraho seat by a margin of 5,41,229 votes.

While the Congress has not fielded its candidate from Khajuraho as part of an INDIA alliance understanding, the Samajwadi Party's Meera Yadav's nomination was rejected on the grounds of technicality by the returning officer.

Sharma bagged 7,72,774 votes against the Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate, Kamlesh Kumar, who polled 2,31,545 votes.

Scindia won Guna seat with a margin of 5,40,929 votes, defeating Congress's Yadvendra Rao Deshraj Singh by polling 9,23,302 votes.

Currently a BJP member of the Rajya Sabha, Scindia had won from Guna as a Congress nominee in 2002, 2004, 2009 and 2014. He lost to the BJP's K P Yadav in 2019 and later joined the BJP in March 2020 after falling out with the state Congress leadership.

Union minister Kulaste defeated Congress's Omkar Singh Markam by a margin of 1,03,846 votes from the Mandla (ST) seat. Kulaste polled 7,51,375 votes, while Markam bagged 6,47,529 votes.

In Tikamgarh (SC) seat, Union minister Virendra Kumar won the fourth term in a row. He defeated his Congress challenger Pankaj Ahirwar by a margin of 4,03,312 votes.

In Ratlam (ST) seat, BJP's Anita Nagar Singh Chauhan defeated Congress leader and former Union minister Kantilal Bhuria by 2,07,232 votes, becoming the first woman to win this seat.

Anita, wife of Madhya Pradesh forest minister Nagar Singh Chauhan, received 7,95,863 votes while Bhuria, who had won from Ratlam five times in the past, got 5,88,631 votes.

The saffron party has so far won Morena, Guna, Sagar, Tikamgarh, Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa, Jabalpur, Mandla, Balaghat, Chhindwara, Hoshangabad, Bhopal, Dewas, Ratlam, Dhar, Indore and Betul constituencies.

It is leading in Bhind, Gwalior, Sidhi, Shahdol, Vidisha, Rajgarh, Ujjain, Mandsaur, Khargone and Khandwa.

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