The BJP and Congress are the only significant contenders for the Chachoura constituency, though BSP and SP have also fielded their candidates.
Digvijaya Singh (Photo: Facebook)
The Chachaura Assembly seat has become a prestige battle for former chief minister and veteran Congress leader Digvijay Singh because his younger brother Laxman Singh is contesting from this constituency on a Congress ticket while the BJP has fielded its sitting MLA Mamata Meena against him.
The Chachoura Assembly segment falls in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh. Laxman Singh has been a two-term MP from Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency and twice an MLA. He is contesting from this seat for the first time.
Laxman Singh won as MLA twice from the Raghogarh seat. Digvijay Singh’s son Jaivardhan Singh is also contesting from adjacent Raghogarh seat.
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The BJP and Congress are the only significant contenders for the Chachoura constituency, though BSP and SP have also fielded their candidates.
BJP candidate Mamata Meena is giving a tough fight to Laxman Singh. Charges of nepotism have been levelled against Digvijay Singh by senior Congress leaders when the party gave tickets to his brother and son in adjoining constituencies. It is the only family in the MP Congress which has got two tickets in this Assembly election.
The sitting MLA Mamata Meena was earlier zila panchayat president of Guna district and is contesting for the third time from this Assembly seat on a BJP ticket. She had registered a huge victory with a margin of 36,000 votes against Congress candidate Shiv Narayan Meena in the 2013 polls. Mamata’s husband is an IPS officer. She is contesting against a member of the erstwhile royal family of Raghogarh for the first time.
The members of the royal family have never been defeated from the Raghogarh and Chachoura constituencies. Digvijay Singh was an MLA from this seat in a by-election when he was made chief minister for the first time in 1993.
The Congress veteran has been camping there since Monday to seek votes for his brother Laxman who is known as ‘Chhote Saheb’ in the area. He has, however, not visited the Raghogarh constituency to campaign for his son after he filed his nomination papers.
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