Bhopal: Jyotiraditya Scindia, Congress candidate from Guna, lost to his old buddy Dr KP Yadav on Thursday. It is the first defeat for Scindia. Party has lost the seat to BJP for the first time since 1991. The leader lost the election with a margin of around 1.24 lakh votes. Scindia got 4,86,105 and Yadav 6,10,855 votes. Though, the party had assigned him the responsibility of west UP, he stayed back in Guna and campaigned extensively. Not only this, he had also skipped AICC national president’s public meetings held in the state.
Many top leaders of other political parties in his constituency had joined the Congress, like BSP candidate Lokendra Singh and former BJP minister KL Agarwal. However, all this manoeuvres failed to bring victory. His wife Priyadarshani Raje Scindia acted as his campaign manager. In fact, she had begun campaigned long before the ticket was announced. However, all her hard work failed to transform into votes. His opponent Dr KP Yadav was his MP representative till 2017. He left the party after Scindia failed to get ticket for him in byelection. In fact, he was front runner for Congress ticket from Mungawali but was denied. Disenchanted, he joined the BJP.
