By winning key seats in Madhya Pradesh, Tuesday’s bypoll results surely did not disappoint Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, whose political future was fixed on him.
Despite seven of its loyalists, including three lost ministers in the Gwalior-Chambal region, Scindia garnered a massive share of votes for the Bharatiya Janata Party in nine seats in the region. His own territory and former loyalist ministers, Tulsiram Silawat and Govind Singh Rajput, also garnered an impressive share of votes in the Sanver and Surkhi districts, respectively.
Following Scindia’s drastic switch to the BJP from Congress in March 2020, the scion of the Scindia family had come under fire from the opposition party. However, just after a clear victory was sealed for the BJP on Tuesday night, Scindia criticized the opposition, saying: “The credit for the victory goes to the public and the workers of the BJP party for their herculean efforts. in the by-elections. The results have shown that Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh were the real gaddars. “
From now on, development and progress will be the caste, religion and politics of all BJP workers, he added.
Scindia, however, rejected all questions about her possible promotion as cabinet minister to the Modi government in the Center. Right after the November 3 vote, Scindia left Bhopal for the national capital and was not part of the celebration at the BJP headquarters in Bhopal on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and others praised Scindia after a resounding victory for the party.
However, there were some obstacles for Scindia, as three of Shivraj’s 14 ministers lost in secondary elections. To add to their problems, they have already lost assembly membership and now lost ministerial positions as well. These ministers also included Imarti Devi from Dabra, who lost to Suresh Raje, MoS Agriculture Girraj Dandotiya lost to Ravindra Singh Tomar of the Congress party by 26,000 Dimni votes while PHE Minister Aidal Singh Kansana lost to Congress party Ajab Singh Kushwah, a BJP rebel by more than 11,000 votes in Sumawali, a seat where elections were marred by massive violence on November 3.
Also, another close aide to Scindia, Munnalal Goyal lost to Satish Sikarwar of the Gwalior East Congress, counting on what ended Tuesday night. For Scindia’s respite, her loyalists – Jajpal Singh Jajji and Brijendra Singh Yadav won Ashoknagar and Mungaoli seats part of Scindia Guna’s former parliamentary seat.
The losses in the Dabra and Gwalior East seats in Gwalior hurt BJP a bit more, as Scindia had held four public meetings in both seats, while Shivraj had addressed two of each.
By contrast, MPCC chief Kamal Nath and Sachin Pilot had also addressed election rallies and road shows in Dabra and Gwalior East.
In Morena, the hometown of Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and BJP Head of State VD Sharma, BJP lost three to Congress, namely: Morena, Sumawali and Dimni, while it was only able to win two in Ambah, the The birthplace of Tomar and Joura, where the bypoll was held. due to the death of MLA Congress Banwarilal Sharma.
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