Kamal Nath makes debut in state polls\, his son in LS elections as MP votes on Monday

Kamal Nath makes debut in state polls, his son in LS elections as MP votes on Monday

Press Trust of India  |  Bhopal 

The political fate of Chief Kamal Nath, his son and state will be sealed in EVMs Monday when six seats go to polls, alongside one assembly constituency, where bypoll will be held.

For the Nath father-son duo, the Monday voting will mark their respective electoral debuts -- while Kamal Nath, who has been elected to nine times, is contesting his first assembly election, for Nakul, it is his maiden parliamentary poll.

did not contest the state elections in 2018. But after the emerged as the single largest party, he became the of the state. As per rules, he needs to get elected to the assembly within six months of assuming office.

The assembly seat was vacated by Nath's close confidant

is contesting from seat. His father had won the LS seat in 2014 by a margin of over 1,16,000 votes.

The BJP has fielded former MLA Natthan Shah Kavreti, a tribal face, against

For Nath junior, father and mother has been campaigning and seeking votes saying that they have handed over their son to the people of the constituency.

For the assembly bypoll, the BJP has fielded Vivek Sahu, a young of the party's youth wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), against

For senior Congress leader, Ajay Singh, the stakes from are high as he lost Lok Sabha polls in 2014 from Satna. He also suffered defeat for the first time in his home turf, Churhat, in the 2018 assembly polls.

Singh lost from Satna by a thin margin of over 8,000 votes against BJP's Ganesh Singh.

This time around, he is contesting from against BJP sitting Riti Pathak, who had won the 2014 Lok Sabha polls by a margin of over 1.08 lakh votes.

Stakes are also high for Tankha in Jabalpur, where he is pitted against and the state

is a third from Jabaplur and has been winning since 2004.

In 2014, the state defeated Tankha by a margin of over two lakh votes.

Six seats -- Sidhi, Shahdol, Jabalpur, Mandla, and Chhindwara -- will go to polls during the first phase on April 29 in While for the state elections, bypoll will be held in Chhindwara assembly constituency.

From (ST) LS seat, the BJP has fielded Himadri Singh, who quit the Congress recently, against Congress' Pramila Singh.

The BJP has fielded former Union and sitting MP from (ST) seat against Congress'

The (GGP), a tribal outfit, has also fielded Ramgulam Uikey from this (Mandla) seat.

From the seat, the BJP has fielded former minister by dropping sitting MP Bodh Singh Bhagat, who is contesting as an Independent this time.

The Congress has fielded Madhu Bhagat from while the nominated former MP

A former MLA, Kishore Samrite is also in the fray as an independent.

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First Published: Sat, April 27 2019. 19:35 IST