In absence of strong opposition in Khajuraho Parliamentary constituency, there is smooth sailing for Vishnu Dutt Sharma, the State president of Bharatiya Janata party (BJP).
He is sitting MP from this constituency. He won this constituency in 2019 with a huge margin of over 4.92 lakh votes by defeating Congress’ Maharani Kavita Singh Natiraja.
In this election, Samajwadi Party (SP) had fielded its candidate Meera Deepak Yadav, as a joint candidate for INDI Alliance. However, at the last minute, during the scrutiny of the nomination papers, the District Returning officer found her nomination papers as invalid.
Being former MLA, Meera was a strong candidate in Khajuraho, but after her nomination was rejected, there has been no strong opposition to BJP’s VD Sharma.After Meera Yadav’s nomination was cancelled, The Congress and the Samajwadi Party extended their support to RB Prajapati, the All India Forward Bloc candidate.
Both the parties did extend their supports to Prajapati, but factually in the field, both the parties were not witnessed making genuine efforts toward Prajapati’s victory.On the contrary, BJP did not leave any stone unturned.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, National BJP leader JP Nadda and other prominent leaders addressed election meetings in Khajuraho.
After the nomination of Meera Yadav was rejected, Congress and SP had conducted a joint press conference in Bhopal. SP’s State president Manoj Yadav had alleged that a well-planned conspiracy” was behind the rejecting of party candidate Meera Yadav’s nomination.
The only reason behind rejection of Yadav’s nomination was that her signature was absent at a required spot on the form and non-submission of the official voter list as per the 2023 State Assembly Elections.
