This time the election contest on Badnawar assembly seat of madhya pradesh is very interesting, where twoarch rivals challenging each other on bharatiya janata party (BJP) and congress (Congress) tickets are comingdata-face to data-face for the third time. Yes, but this time their parties have changed. This is the reason why the interestingphrase “Same candidate, but new party” is being heard on this seat.The main electoral contest on the Badnavar assembly seat of Dhar district is between the state bjp government’sIndustrial Policy and Investment Promotion minister Rajvardhan Singh Dattigaon (51) and congress leaderBhanwar Singh Shekhawat (72). Both the leaders belong to the Rajput community and are facing each other onthis seat for the third consecutive time. Along with Rajput community, voters of tribal and Patidar communitiesalso play an important role in deciding the election result of this seat which has about 2.21 lakh voters. Dattigaonwas among the 22 rebel congress MLAs who resigned from the assembly and joined bjp in the year 2020under the patronage of Jyotiraditya Scindia.Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat had joined CongressThis led to the fall of the then kamal nath government. After this, bjp returned to power in the state under theleadership of Shivraj Singh Chauhan. Shekhawat left bjp and joined congress on september 2 this year (2023).Now he is contesting on congress ticket against bjp candidate Dattigaon in Badnawar. Dattigaon said onTuesday, Shekhawat, a resident of Indore, is seen in Badnawar area during election time, but during the severeoutbreak of Covid-19, he was missing from Badnawar and he did not even inquire about the well-being of theregional people.
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