In the urban body elections, especially Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Rewa, Jabalpur, Sagar, Bhopal, the Congress has fixed candidates for 6 cities. MLA Sanjay Shukla from Indore, Mahesh Parmar from Ujjain, Jagat Bahadur Singh, city Congress president from Jabalpur, Shobha Sikarwar, wife of Satish Sikarwar from Gwalior, and Sunil Nidhi Jain, brother of MLA Shailendra Jain, have been fielded for Sagar Municipal Corporation. Apart from this, the name of Ajay Mishra has been decided for Rewa Municipal Corporation.
At present, the BJP is holding most of the seats. In view of this, the party will put up such faces, who can live up to the expectations. With the reservation, the names of the mayor's contenders have also changed.
For the election, BJP has been in control of Bhopal for a long time, but due to the reservation of the seat, the next mayor will become a woman of OBC category.
In such a situation, the party will give ticket to the candidate who can win. If we talk about the contenders, then Krishna Gaur is at the top. She is the daughter-in-law of former Chief Minister Babulal Gaur and former mayor of the corporation as well as Govindpura MLA.
Apart from these, Malti Rai, Rajo Malviya can also become contenders.
On the other hand, if we talk about Congress, then Vibha Patel is the main contender, besides Santosh Kansana and Mona Sahu are also being counted among the contenders.
The doors of the mayor's seat in Indore Municipal Corporation are open to all. In such a situation, BJP will put up a candidate who can retain the seat of the mayor.
Among them Dr. Nishant Khare and Ramesh Mendola are in the race. OBC category has got 25% reservation in 16 municipal corporations of the state. Morena and Ujjain chair was reserved for SC and Chhindwara chair for ST.
Municipal elections will be held in two phases, first on 6th and second on 13th July and the result will come on 17-18.