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Election Results: The Madhya Pradesh election result is being declared today.
New Delhi / Bhopal:
Madhya Pradesh Election Results: The Madhya Pradesh election result is being declared today, with counting of votes from 8 am IST. The Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections were held on November 17, 2023 to elect all 230 members of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Voting was carried out in a single phase.
Madhya Pradesh has been a BJP stronghold for the last twenty years, barring the 15-month tenure of the Kamal Nath-led government when Congress came to power in 2018. Interestingly, though, BJP’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has been a four-time Chief Minister, has not been officially declared as the candidate for the top post in 2023.
Will the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP return for another 5 years? Or Will the Congress finally manage to make a full-term comeback after over two decades of sitting in the Opposition?
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Kamal Nath is the man who won Madhya Pradesh for the Congress in 2018. Kamal Nath is a nine-time Lok Sabha MP and has held six berths in the union cabinet, as well as serving as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly. Kamal Nath, now 76, is a man-on-a-mission.
Madhya Pradesh saw its highest-ever turnout of over 77 per cent during the voting for the Assembly polls on November 17. The Congress is hoping anti-incumbency will sweep it back to power, but four-time Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has claimed the BJP’s performance is enough to get his party re-elected.
On paper, the advantage is with the BJP – Madhya Pradesh has voted for the party in three of the last four elections and four of nine exit polls have it returning to power, each by large margins. Three of those four give it more than 139 of the Assembly’s 230 seats.
For the Congress and Kamal Nath, a former Chief Minister, the 2023 Madhya Pradesh election is a chance at redemption after the events of March 2020, when several MLAs along with Jyotiraditya Scindia left an in-party after a tussle with Kamal Nath. This led to the fall of the Congress government in the state. Jyotiraditya Scindia then joined the BJP following which the BJP returned to power in the state. Kamal Nath has squarely blamed Mr Scindia, accusing him of a “sauda” (deal) with the BJP in 2020.
In the battle for Madhya Pradesh, the Congress is out for ‘revenge’ for the way power was taken away from them soon after their win in 2018. The BJP however, would like to capitalise on the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as it plots its fifth win in the state.
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