- SP, BSP don’t have existence
- Regional issues dominate, unemployment main problem
- SP makes Dadua’s son its candidate
- This is the fort of BJP
Suresh Pandey, Panna,
It is the bad luck of Panna district that whether it is associated with Damoh Lok Sabha or Khajuraho Lok Sabha, the Congress and BJP gave no precedence to anyone else except two candidates Maharajah Narendra Singh and his son Lokendra Singh belonging to Panna Royal Family. Both Congress and BJP succeed on the basis of imported or parachute candidates.
Khajuraho is one of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. This constituency came into existence in 2017. Presently it covers the entire Panna district and parts of Chhatarpur and Katni districts.
Maharani Kavita Singh Natiraja of Indian National Congress, VD Sharma (Vishnu Datt Sharma) of Bharatiya Janata Party and Ashwani Kumar Dubey of Sarvodaya Bharat Party are a few prominent candidates contesting for general election 2019 from Khajuraho Lok Sabha constituency of Madhya Pradesh.
The Khajuraho Lok Sabha Constituency has a total of eight assembly segments – Chandla, Rajnagar, Pawai, Gunnaor, Panna, Vijayraghavgarh, Murwara and Bahoriband.
The election here will be conducted on May 6, 2019, as per the Phase V schedule announced by the Election Commission. The counting of votes will be held on May 23.
Nagendra Singh of BJP is the sitting Member of Parliament from this constituency. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Singh received 4,74,966 votes and defeated Congress candidate Raja Pateria who got 2,27,476 votes.
Seat has largely voted for BJP
The Khajuraho Lok Sabha seat has been represented in Parliament by major leaders such as Uma Bharti. Since 1989, the seat has largely voted for the BJP, only once swinging in favour of the Congress in 1999 when it elected Satyavrat Chaturvedi who defeated the BJP’s Akhand Pratap Singh Yadav. Chaturvedi was defeated by the BJP’s Ramkrishna Kushmariya in the 2004 elections when the party won back the seat.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s Nagendra Singh had defeated the Congress’s Raja Pateria by 247,490 votes.
This time around, the BJP has fielded Vishnu Datt Sharma as its candidate despite opposition from some quarters within the party against the Congress’s Kavita Singh Natiraja. There was also talk of the possibility of Uma Bharati being fielded once again from the constituency which she had represented for nearly 20 years between 1989 and 1998.
Khajuraho Lok Sabha constituency
State: Madhya Pradesh
Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Khajuraho
Date of polling: May 6
Contesting candidates: Vishnu Datt Sharma (BJP), Kavita Singh Natiraja (Congress)
Sitting MP, Party: Nagendra Singh, BJP
Winning margin in 2014: 2,08,731
Runner up name, party: Raja Pateria, Congress
Number of voters in 2014: 874,531
Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 53Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,864
Number of women voters: 357,136