Guna, Madhya Pradesh:
Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, the BJP candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Guna for the Lok Sabha elections, on Thursday said he is the ‘spider’ of the constituency as he has constructed an extensive network of roads there.
Scindia, while addressing a gathering of the Rawat community in Guna’s Shivpuri, also asked people to ensure that the BJP gets an additional 370 votes in each booth compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls so that Narendra Modi gets a third term until Prime Minister is elected.
“Twenty years ago, when I decided to walk the path of devotion, I decided that if no one would solve your problems, Jyotiraditya Scindia would… I am the spider of Shivpuri. I have built a network of roads here, a network of substations, a network of irrigation facilities and a network of progress and development for the people here…’ he said.
“To make Narendra Modi Prime Minister for the third time, we have to work on increasing (BJP) votes by 370 in each booth,” he said.
The minister further said that under the Prime Minister’s leadership, several welfare programs were launched for farmers, women, youth and poor, including providing free ration to 80 crore people and Ayushman Bharat health initiative.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the slogan ‘abki baar 400 pairs’. Under his leadership, Article 370 was abolished in Jammu and Kashmir. Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee (Jan Sangh founder) sacrificed his life for the removal of Article 370. Prime Minister is working to make India a developed country by 2047,” he said.
The Congress is pitting former BJP leader Rao Yadvendra Singh Yadav against Jyotiraditya Scindia. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Scindia, then a Congress candidate, had lost to KP Yadav. Scindia’s defeat from his home turf by 1.25 lakh votes set off a chain of events, including an internal party struggle, which ultimately resulted in Scindia’s exit from the party in 2020. He took 22 MLAs with him, causing the collapse of the the Congress-led government. by Kamal Nath who had come to power in 2018. The BJP brought Scindia into Parliament through the Rajya Sabha and made him a Union minister.
The BJP has named candidates for all 29 seats in the state. The Congress is yet to announce names for the seats of Gwalior, Khandwa and Morena.
Scindia has started campaigning in the seat, which votes on May 7, before he was even officially declared the BJP candidate, and has been attending important events of various communities.
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