Congress’s hopes of getting benefits in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections from ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ were dashed when BJP won 17 out of the 21 seats through which the Rahul Gandhi-led yatra passed. BJP on Sunday achieved two-third majority by winning 163 out of 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh Assembly, while Congress stood second with 66 seats. Last year, between November 23 and December 4, ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ covered a distance of 380 kilometers through six districts of Malwa-Nimar region of the state, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Indore, Ujjain and Agar Malwa, in which a total of 21 seats were covered. Are.
BJP won 14 of these seats in 2018, while Congress was victorious on seven seats. This time in the 2023 elections, BJP increased its number of seats to 17 and Congress was reduced to four seats. BJP’s Archana Chitnis won from Burhanpur, Manju Dadu won from Nepanagar seat of the district. The Burhanpur seat was won in 2018 by independent candidate Surendra Singh Shera, who was unsuccessful as a Congress candidate this time. Congress’s Sumitra Kasdekar won the Nepanagar seat in 2018, but later switched sides and was elected on a BJP ticket in the 2020 by-election. BJP has retained this seat. BJP’s Narayan Patel and Chhaya More also won from Mandhata and Pandhana respectively.
In 2018, Ram Dangore of BJP had won the Pandhana seat, while Narayan Patel of Congress had won the Mandhata seat. Patel later switched to BJP and won the by-elections in 2020. The ruling party gave him the ticket again. In Khargone district, ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ passed through Barwah and Bhikangaon assembly seats. BJP’s Sachin Birla won from Barwah while Congress candidate Jhuma Solanki won from Bhikangaon. In 2018, both the seats were won by Congress. Barwah MLA Sachin Birla later joined BJP. ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ reached all the eight seats of Indore district. Here BJP was victorious on all eight seats.
BJP’s Usha Thakur and Madhu Verma won from Mhow and Rau respectively. BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya won Indore-1 seat by defeating sitting MLA Sanjay Shukla. BJP’s Ramesh Mendola (Indore-2), Golu Shukla (Indore-3), Malini Gaur (Indore-4) and Mahendra Hardiya (Indore-5) also won. Apart from this, Tulsi Silavat, who joined BJP from Congress in 2020, won from Saver seat. Before entering Rajasthan on December 4 last year, ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ passed through Agar Malwa and Susner assembly seats of Agar Malwa district. Madhav Singh of BJP won the Agar Malwa seat while Bhairo Singh of Congress won the Susner seat.
BJP won the Agar Malwa assembly seat in 2018 but lost it to Congress in the 2020 by-election, where the by-election was necessitated by the demise of sitting MLA Manohar Untwal. The Susner assembly seat was won in 2018 by independent candidate Vikram Singh Rana, who later joined the BJP. BJP’s Mohan Yadav and Anil Jain won from Ujjain South and Ujjain North seats respectively. BJP’s Satish Malviya won from Ghattia and Congress’s Mahesh Parmar won from Tarana seat. Dinesh Jain of Congress won the Mahidpur assembly seat. BJP won four out of five seats in Ujjain districts in 2018, Congress won only one seat.
The four seats that Congress won on the route of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Madhya Pradesh are Bhikangaon, Tarana, Mahidpur and Susner. Congress leaders had claimed that the reason for Congress’s victory in Karnataka in May this year was ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. In the southern state, the party won 15 of the 20 assembly seats through which the Rahul Gandhi-led yatra passed. Later in October this year, Congress attributed its victory in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil elections to the Yatra.