According to the Election Commission, a candidate needs to secure at least one-sixth of the total valid votes cast in the constituency to save their security deposits which ranges from Rs 12,500 to Rs 25,000.
Chhindwara Election Results 2024: Congress has never lost in the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency since 1951, except in the by-election in 1997. BJP swept MP in the last election but could not breach Congress stalwart Kamal Nath's fortress.
Senior BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in an exclusive conversation with India TV spoke about NDA's 400-plus seats target in the Lok Sabha elections, on Congress performance in Madhya Pradesh, BJP's presence in South among other issues.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The voters in 102 constituencies will use their franchise on April 19 in the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. 21 states and Union Territories will go to polls in the first phase.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: The election for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases starting April 19. Nearly 97 crore voters are eligible to cast votes in the general election. The counting of the votes will be held on June 4.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh will be conducted in four phases. The first phase of polling would be held on April 19, followed by April 26, May 7 and May 13. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.
Polling in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases beginning from April 19. The counting of votes is scheduled for June 4. Madhya Pradesh has a total of 29 parliamentary seats.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: For the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Congress has announced sitting MP Nakul Nath, son of Kamal Nath, as its candidate Meanwhile, the BJP has fielded its district president Vivek Bunty Sahu from the Chhindwara seat in Madhya Pradesh.
The BJP has released its second list of 72 candidates for Lok Sabha elections. In the latest list, BJP has named five candidates from Madhya Pradesh.
Congress has declared candidates from five states and one Union Territory in its second list. The party has fielded 10 candidates from the General category, 13 OBCs, 10 SCs, 9 ST candidates and 1 Muslim candidate.
In its first list, Congress released the names of 39 candidates including Rahul Gandhi, who has been fielded from Kerala's Wayanad. Lok Sabha elections are due in few weeks and the polling schedule is expected to be announced in the next 3-4 days.
If Kamal Nath, a Congress stalwart in Madhya Pradesh, leaves Congress, this would be the fourth big departure from the grand old party after Baba Siddique, Milind Deora, and Ashok Chavan just ahead of crucial Lok Sabha elections.
Kamal Nath news: The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath is said to be disgruntled over not getting a Rajya Sabha berth and also Rahul Gandhi being opposed to him since the party lost the assembly polls late last year.
Chhindwara is a bastion of Kamal Nath, who was MP from the seat for nine terms, while Nakul Nath won in the 2019 polls, even as BJP swept the remaining 28 seats in the state.
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Amid the political crisis for Chief Minister Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh, his son Nakul Nath hit out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 'misguiding' Congress MLAs.
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