Madhya Pradesh started polling today at 7 a.m. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister, is running for the assembly seat in Budhni. In addition to the two major political parties, the AAP, BSP, and SP have put forward their own candidates: the BJP and the Congress. Results of the assembly poll released on December 3.
On Friday, at 7 a.m., voters in Madhya Pradesh will decide the destiny of 2,533 candidates running for 230 assembly seats. Among them are prominent figures in politics such as Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his opponent Kamal Nath. All assembly segments will have voting until 6 p.m., with the exception of the Baihar, Lanjhi, and Paraswada seats in the Balaghat district, the 55 booths in the Mandla district’s Bichhiya and Mandla seats, and the 40 polling stations in the Dindori district, which are all impacted by Naxalism and have voting until 3 p.m.
In addition to state Congress president Kamal Nath (Chhindwara) and Chief Minister Chouhan (Budhni), three Union ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Patel, and Faggan Singh Kulaste—are running for office. Three BJP MPs for the Lok Sabha, Rakesh Singh, Ganesh Singh, and Riti Pathak, are also running, along with general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya from Indore-1.
Ajay Singh, the son of former chief minister Arjun Singh, and Jaivardhan Singh, the son of senior Congress politician Digvijaya Singh, are running from their respective historic seats in Churhat and Raghogarh. In addition to the major political competitors, candidates fielded by the Aam Aadmi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Samajwadi Party, the Congress, and the BJP.
Elections in Madhya Pradesh are going quietly, according to an official
An official in the state of Madhya Pradesh stated, “All four assembly constituencies under Sidhi district are holding calm polling as of right now. Law and order upheld. All concerns that received handled right away.” “There are 247 sensitive booths in the district and CAPF has been deployed at booths labelled very sensitive,” he stated.
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