December 3rd 2023.
The counting of votes for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023 began at sharp 8 am on Sunday. Early trends indicated a neck-to-neck fight between Shivraj Singh Chouhan's BJP and Kamal Nath's Congress. However, by round 5, the trends started to incline towards BJP.
Let's take a look at some of the constituencies where both the parties fielded their veteran candidates:
Dimni: Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar was in the fray from Gwalior-Chambal's Dimni seat for BJP. In the first few rounds, he had the lead with 635 votes, surpassing Congress candidate Ravindra Singh Tomar and BSP's Balveer Singh Dandotiya. But in round 5, Dandotiya surged ahead with 1667 votes, overtaking Tomar.
Rau: Congress MLA Jitu Patwari was leading in the initial rounds from the Rau seat of Indore division. However, by round 5, he started to trail behind the BJP opponent Madhu Verma.
Indore-1: Kailash Vijaywargiya of BJP was leading with a comfortable margin against Sanjay Shukla of Congress, who was the sitting MLA from Indore-1.
Budhni: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was leading in Budhni seat of Bhopal division against Bollywood actor Vikram Mastal of Congress.
Chhindwara: Congress state chief and former chief minister Kamal Nath was also ahead in his home constituency Chhindwara. He was in the race with BJP's Bunty Sahu. Just like the previous 2018 assembly elections, the two were neck-to-neck.
Datia: Home minister Narottam Mishra of BJP was lagging behind Rajendra Bharti of Congress. However, it is too early to predict anything as in 2018 assembly elections too, Mishra had been trailing until late afternoon and then won by a small margin of 1800 votes.
Sidhi: One of the controversial seats of Madhya Pradesh after the Sidhi urination case. BJP had replaced the sitting MLA Kedarnath Shukla with Member of Parliament Riti Pathak. Early trends indicated that Pathak was on the lead.
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said before the counting of votes that people will bless BJP in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023. Now, with the early trends indicating BJP's lead in 118 seats and Congress's in 89, the statements seem to have come true.
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