Will congress be able to break into BJP's stronghold?
To win the indore lok sabha seat of Madhya Pradesh, congress has fielded Akshay Kanti Bam in the election field. Here bjp has declared sitting mp shankar Lalwani as its candidate. There is talk that congress has fielded a young face to break into the BJP's stronghold. Here bjp has been invincible for the last 35 years. bjp has been winning this seat since the tenure of sumitra mahajan in 1989. In indore, sumitra mahajan first defeated congress leader Prakash Chand Sethi, and this trend continued till 2019. In 2019, shankar Lalwani got the ticket in place of Tai i.e. sumitra mahajan and he won with a lead of Rs 5 lakh. congress tried many of its big faces against the bjp, but no one could reduce the victory margin.
Sanghvi was in the fray against shankar in 2019
In the last lok sabha elections, congress had fielded Pankaj Sanghvi against shankar Lalwani, but Lalwani won the lok sabha elections by more than 5.47 lakh votes. shankar Lalwani got 10,68,569 votes, while Pankaj Sanghvi got 5,20,815 votes. Whereas BSP's Deepchand Ahirwar got 8,666 votes. According to the official data of the election Commission, a total of 69.56 percent voting took place in indore in 2019. At present, Sanghvi left congress and joined bjp a few days ago.
These were the candidates in the 2019 general elections
Candidates from an indore parliamentary seat in the 2019 general elections were Pankaj Sanghvi (Congress), shankar Lalwani (Bharatiya Janata Party), engineer Deepchand Ahirwar (Bahujan Samaj Party), Iftikhar ahmed khan (Minority Democratic Party), Kamlesh Vaishnav (Hindustan Nirman Dal). , Dheeraj Dubey, journalist (Sapax Party), bhavana Kishore Sangeliya (Janata Congress), and Socialist party were in the fray. The independent candidates included Imran Baksh, Parmanand Tolani, Prakash Verma, praveen Kumar Ajmera, Mahendra Tikalia, Haji Mushtaq Ansari, Ranjit Gauhar, Ramesh Patil, Rajkaran Yadav, Shailendra Sharma, Surendra and Dr. sandeep Vasantrao Kadve.
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