Madhya Pradesh Election 2023: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan files nomination from Budhni | WATCH

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Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan filed his nomination as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Budhni Assembly constituency on Monday. The 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly will go to polls in a single phase on November 17. The filing of nominations began on October 21, and the last date to file nominations was Monday, October 30.

Chouhan will be contesting the 2023 elections from the Budhni seat against Congress candidate and actor Vikram Mastal and Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Mahamandaleshwar Swami Vairagyanand Giri alias Mirchi Baba. Chouhan contested the 2013 assembly polls from Vidisha and Budhni and won both the seats. However, he later resigned from Vidisha to retain the Budhni assembly seat.

Chouhan also represented Vidisha Lok Sabha seat five times, state BJP secretary Rajneesh Agrawal was quoted by news agency PTI as saying. Besides Chouhan, other key candidates in the Madhya Pradesh election include former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Kamal Nath, who will fight polls from the Chhindwara assembly seat, and BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya who will contest from Indore-1 assembly constituency. On Sunday, the BJP chief of Jabalpur city in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh resigned from his post on Sunday alleging inaction by the party’s central leadership over unruly scenes at their local office on October 21.

The Madhya Pradesh Election 2023 will see a tight contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have also fielded their candidates for the state polls. Both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress have announced their candidates for all the 230 assembly seats in the state.