Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced 24 candidates for Lok Sabha elections and it has also denied ticket to 10 of its sitting MPs. The party has not yet announced its candidates from Bhopal, Indore, Sagar, Vidisha and Guna seats and it is possible that four sitting MPs may not get ticket this time. It is sure that Alok Sanjar from Bhopal, Sushma Swaraj from Vidisha, Sumitra Mahajan from Indore and Laxminarayan Yadav from Sagar would not get ticket this time. Former minister Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya lost to Jyotirdaditya Scindia from Guna seat.
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The party is looking for new candidates in place of Pawaiya. BJP has so far denied ticket to its 10 MPs.They include Savitri Thakur from Dhar, Anup Mishra from Morena, Bhagirath Prasad from Bhind, Chintaman Malviya from Ujjain, Subhash Patel from Khargone, Bodh Singh Bhagat from Balaghat, Gyan Singh from Shahdol and Jyoti Dhurvey from Betul.
New candidates have been given ticket in place of Dewas MP Manohar Untwaal and Khajuraho MP Nagendra Singh. Vidisha MP Sushma Swaraj has already announced that she would not contest elections. The remaining three MPs are doing their best to get ticket this time.
FILING BEGINS TODAY IN BHOPAL, NO BJP CANDIDATE YET
The nomination for sixth phase of voting will begin from Tuesday. Voting in Bhopal will take place on May 12. However, BJP has not announced its candidate from Bhopal seat. Congress has fielded former chief minister Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal on March 23 but BJP could not decide its candidate. The names of Uma Bharati, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Alok Sharma are doing rounds but no final name has been decided so far.
