Leader of Opposition Dharamlal Kaushik and BJP MLAs visited the family members of party’s late MLA Bhima Mandavi at Dantewada on Wednesday.
The lone BJP MLA from Bastar division Bhima Mandavi, along with four of his security personnel, was killed in an IED blast triggered by Naxalites near Shyamgiri, Dantewada on April 9.
His demise just before the first phase of polling in Bastar, came as a shock to the party.
With most of the MLAs engaged in the Lok Sabha Polls 2019 campaigning in different parts of the country, the party MLAs calling on the family members is being seen as a political move by the party eyeing at future.
Apart from Kaushik, other party MLAs who visited the family are party’s chief whip Shivratan Sharma, Narayan Chandel, Krishnamurti Bandhi, Vidyaratan Bhasin among others.
The MLAs offered floral tributes to the portrait of late Bhima Ram Mandavi. They also interacted with the family members and made enquiries.
Party sources said that Dantewada Assembly constituency will go for by-poll in that case, the party is likely to field wife of late Bhima Mandavi, Ojaswi Mandavi. If she is ready to fight the election, then party will make her its official candidate.