Bhopal: Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s (BJP) nationwide common secretary Kailash Vijayavargiya is main by 28,000 votes over the Congress’s billionaire candidate Sanjay Shukla in Indore-1 meeting constituency.
Vijayavargiya had voiced his shock and reluctance at being nominated to struggle the election.
The constituency has 3.63 lakh registered voters and has recorded 34,000 first-time voters. It additionally has a migrant inhabitants of over 1 p.c.
Among the many BJP’s huge weapons on this election, Vijayvargiya had informed voters within the run-up to the election that he wasn’t gunning to be simply an MLA and that he’s poised for a bigger function within the occasion.
This victory comes at a time when the BJP, seemingly to be wanting past Shivraj Singh Chouhan as its chief ministerial candidate, has fielded seven sitting MPs — together with three union ministers — other than Vijayvargiya.
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‘Outsider’
Whereas campaigning for the election, Congress’s Sanjay Shukla had repeatedly used Vijayvargiya’s picture as a nationwide chief to name him an outsider and a ‘neta who will not win’.
Considerably, the BJP nationwide secretary is a registered voter within the adjoining Indore-2.
In distinction, Shukla has projected himself to be the “beta” (son) of the constituency. Addressing reporters earlier within the day, he stated he was assured that the Congress will safe 140 seats of the state’s 230 meeting seats.
“We gave 18 years to the BJP in power, but after the Congress government came to power in 2018, the BJP bought the MLAs and since then have done no work, except make recovery,” Shukla informed reporters in Bhopal, the place he was scheduled to satisfy Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath.
On his half, Vijayvargiya, who has purchased a home within the meeting constituency to indicate he was now a resident, had beforehand known as his rival “politically immature”. Brushing apart predictions that it might be a good contest, he informed ThePrint that the folks of Indore had all the time stood behind him.
“The BJP will form a government not just in Madhya Pradesh but in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh as well,” Vijayvargiya informed reporters Saturday.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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