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Congress’ candidate Akshay Kanti Bam from Madhya Pradesh’s Indore Lok Sabha constituency withdrew his nomination and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday, NDTV reported.
Monday was the last day of withdrawal of nominations for the Indore seat.
BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya said in a social media post that Bam had been inducted into the party.
The Indore Lok Sabha constituency has been held by the BJP since 1989. The Hindutva party’s Shankar Lalwani had won the seat by more than 5.4 lakh votes in 2019.
This comes days after the BJP candidate from Gujarat’s Surat constituency, Mukesh Dala, was declared winner unopposed after the Congress’ Nilesh Kumbhani was disqualified by the polling officer and other candidates withdrew their nominations. This was two weeks before the seat was scheduled to head for voting.
Dalal was declared the winner on April 22, a day after Sourabh Pardhi, Surat’s district election officer, rejected the nomination papers of Kumbhani on the grounds that all three persons who had proposed his candidature had failed to turn up before the polling authority to support his nomination form.
The persons had claimed in an affidavit to the poll officer that they had not signed his nomination form. The nomination of the Congress’ alternative candidate was also rejected on the same grounds.
On April 26, the Congress suspended Kumbhani from the party for six years. The party said that Kumbhani either connived with the BJP or was “completely careless” while filing his nomination form.
This is a developing story. It will be updated as new details are available.
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