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21 Oct 2024

Cracks in Indi alliance again in Madhya Pradesh!… SP fields its candidate in Budhni… gives ticket to Congress rebel


MP By-election 2024: Cracks are once again visible in the Indi alliance in Madhya Pradesh. In the by-election to the Budhni assembly seat of MP, the Samajwadi Party has also fielded a candidate. Now the contest on the Budhni assembly seat has become triangular. 


While the BJP has fielded former MP Ramakant Bhargava, the Congress has bet on former minister Rajkumar Patel. At the same time, the Samajwadi Party has made the contest triangular by giving ticket to Congress rebel Arjun Arya. Even during the 2023 assembly elections, the SP chief, angry with the lack of deal and rhetoric, had fielded his candidates against the Congress.


In such a situation, after the announcement of the candidates for the by-election, the electoral battle seems to be getting interesting. Cracks are visible in the Indi alliance. While Akhilesh Yadav is demanding a seat for his party in the Maharashtra assembly elections, in Madhya Pradesh, he has given ticket to a rebel Congress leader in the Budhni by-election. Therefore the alliance of Congress and SP is not visible here in MP.


The special thing is that as soon as the name of former minister Rajkumar Patel was announced as the Congress candidate, SP also made Arjun Arya its candidate. Angry at not getting the ticket, Arjun has resigned from Congress and taken the ticket with SP membership. 


Arjun Arya had already met Akhilesh


Actually, Arjun Arya was fully hopeful of getting a ticket from Congress this time in the by-election to be held on Budhni assembly seat. However, even before announcement of candidate, Arya had met SP President Akhilesh Yadav on 14 October. After this, when Congress declared Rajkumar Patel as the candidate, late at night Arya sent his resignation to Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge.


Even earlier, Arya has been in the Samajwadi Party. In the 2018 assembly elections, Arjun Arya was considered a strong contender. But at that time Congress had fielded former Union Minister Arun Yadav. In 2023 assembly elections, Congress had fielded Vikram Mastal from Budhni. In this by-election, Congress has bet on Rajkumar.


(Prakash Kumar Pandey)

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