Political fortunes of two former Chief Ministers and a sitting Union Home Minister, and the control of the crucial Gwalior-Chambal region among others, will be at stake when voters from nine seats in Madhya Pradesh choose their Lok Sabha members on May 7.
In phase three of the election in the State, BJP candidate Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was the State’s longest serving Chief Minister, is returning to his traditional Vidisha constituency after nearly 20 years. Another former Chief Minister, Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh, is contesting from his home turf Rajgarh after 30 years. Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who lost his family seat of Guna as a Congress candidate in 2019, is hoping to regain the constituency on a BJP ticket this time.
Apart from these, Morena, Bhind (SC) and Gwalior seats of the crucial Gwalior-Chambal belt, Bhopal, Sagar, and Betul (ST) will vote on May 7. Betul was originally scheduled to vote in the second phase but the elections were postponed after the death of the Bahujan Sam Party (BSP) candidate.
