A surprising twist, State’s Commercial Capital, Indore, is going to witness no major tussle in these elections, perhaps first time in the electoral history of the city. Six-days ahead of polling day, Congress party’s candidate has withdrawn his candidature. It seems that most populated city will have unipolar contest as main rival Congress candidate Akshay Bam has withdrawn his nomination at the eleventh hour. Like most parts of the State here the election battle is bipolar in nature and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are the arch rivals. ‘The Hitavada’ came to know that script for this high voltage drama was being written some time ago and in a planned way.

 

Congress candidate was accompanied by BJP General Secretary, Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and MLA Ramesh Mandola. For this elections, BJP has repeated sitting MP Shankar Lalwani. If Malwa is being considered as political power house of the State then Indore is in the epicentre to give a push to a party in any elections. City with largest population holds significance in economic and trade circles also. It is being considered a BJP bastion. Before Lalwani, the seat was represented by BJP MP former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. She represented the constituency eight times. Now, the question rises what has prompted Congress candidate to leave the battle ground like Khajuraho seat where the nomination of I.N.D.I. Alliance’ candidate was rejected and she was out of the contest. For Indore, it seems that this time BJP is fighting not only to retain its claim for a seat or clinch any seat from Opposition but to emerge victorious with a huge margin also. For Indore, party has reasons to opt for this strategy since in Assembly elections Indore’s No. 2 constituency has given the party victory with a margin of around one lakh votes.