Sehore(PTI). The Congress on Sunday night announced the candidature of former minister Rajkumar Patel from Budhni seat and tribal leader Mukesh Malhotra from Vijaypur segment for the upcoming assembly bypolls in Madhya Pradesh.
The BJP has already nominated former MP Ramakant Bhargava for the Budhni seat in the Sehore district and will field ex-Congress leader Ramniwas Rawat in the Vijaypur constituency in Sheopur district.
Malhotra, who will contest from Vijaypur, is a leader from the Saharia tribe. During the November 2023 assembly elections, he had contested as an independent and bagged 44,128 votes, while Rawat won the seat as a Congress nominee.
In Budhni, 2,76,397 citizens are eligible to cast their ballots. Of them, 1,33,280 are female, 1,43,111 male, six from the third gender, and 194 are service voters.
There will be 327 polling stations in Vijaypur assembly constituency, while this number is 363 in Budhni.
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