MP polls 2023: BJP, Congress vie with one another to woo tribal votes

By Express News Service

BHOPAL: Poll-bound Madhya Pradesh is ready to see a flurry of political exercise over the approaching week because the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress vie for the essential 21% tribal vote. 

While the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP authorities is claimed to host 5 mega Veerangana Rani Durgavati Gaurav Yatras from completely different tribal-dominated areas, the opposition Congress will manage mega an Adivasi Sammellan in tribal-dominated Mandla district on June 24.

June 24 marks the 459th anniversary of the Gondwana kingdom queen’s martyrdom, which was attained whereas preventing the forces of Mughal emperor Akbar. 

The 5 yatras will probably be launched on Thursday, concurrently from Balaghat, Kamal Nath’s pocket-borough Chhindwara, moreover Damoh and Sidhi – all in MP – and Kalinjar Fort in adjoining Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, which is the birth-place of the brave-heart queen. 

One of those yatras will probably be launched by union house minister Amit Shah from the Maoists-affected Balaghat district, after which he’s prone to have lunch on the home of a tribal household, as a part of the saffron occasion authorities’s ongoing tribal outreach efforts. 

The different 4 yatras will probably be launched by first-time Lok Sabha members DD Uike and Himadri Singh, first-time Rajya Sabha member Sumer Singh Solanki, former MP Sampatiya Uike, and state’s forest minister Kunwar Vijay Shah. All these leaders are tribal politicians. 

All the 5 yatras will culminate on June 27 in Shahdol district, the place a mega Rani Durgavati Balidan Diwas occasion will probably be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier than he reportedly travels to a tribal village for lunch and interplay with tribals. 

Just two days after the beginning of the BJP authorities’s 5 mega yatras, the Mandla district will host a mega Adivasi Sammellan of the opposition Congress, which will probably be addressed by state occasion chief Kamal Nath. The occasion will coincide with the 459th demise anniversary of the courageous queen. 

Importantly, tribals represent 21% of MP’s inhabitants and 47 out of the full 230 meeting seats are reserved for tribals. Out of those 47 seats, the ruling BJP had gained 29 seats and the Congress 18 within the 2008 meeting polls. In 2013 polls, the saffron occasion emerged victorious on 31 seats, whereas the Congress gained 16 seats. 

In the 2018 polls, the story was reversed, because the Congress emerged triumphant on 31 seats, whereas the BJP needed to be content material with simply 15 seats, and one seat was gained by a Congress insurgent. 

The BJP authorities’s 5 mega yatras devoted to Rani Durgavati will notably traverse by tribal dominated components of Vindhya area, which home 30 meeting seats, Mahakoshal area which has 38 seats and a few components of Bundelkhand area. 

In the 2013 elections, the BJP had gained 24 out of the 30 seats in Vindhya area, whereas the Congress was a distant second with simply six seats. On the opposite, the Congress had gained 24 out of the 38 seats within the Mahakoshal area, whereas the BJP had managed to win simply 13 seats, adopted by one seat to a Congress insurgent.

BHOPAL: Poll-bound Madhya Pradesh is ready to see a flurry of political exercise over the approaching week because the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress vie for the essential 21% tribal vote. 

While the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP authorities is claimed to host 5 mega Veerangana Rani Durgavati Gaurav Yatras from completely different tribal-dominated areas, the opposition Congress will manage mega an Adivasi Sammellan in tribal-dominated Mandla district on June 24.

June 24 marks the 459th anniversary of the Gondwana kingdom queen’s martyrdom, which was attained whereas preventing the forces of Mughal emperor Akbar. 

The 5 yatras will probably be launched on Thursday, concurrently from Balaghat, Kamal Nath’s pocket-borough Chhindwara, moreover Damoh and Sidhi – all in MP – and Kalinjar Fort in adjoining Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, which is the birth-place of the brave-heart queen. 

One of those yatras will probably be launched by union house minister Amit Shah from the Maoists-affected Balaghat district, after which he’s prone to have lunch on the home of a tribal household, as a part of the saffron occasion authorities’s ongoing tribal outreach efforts. 

The different 4 yatras will probably be launched by first-time Lok Sabha members DD Uike and Himadri Singh, first-time Rajya Sabha member Sumer Singh Solanki, former MP Sampatiya Uike, and state’s forest minister Kunwar Vijay Shah. All these leaders are tribal politicians. 

All the 5 yatras will culminate on June 27 in Shahdol district, the place a mega Rani Durgavati Balidan Diwas occasion will probably be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier than he reportedly travels to a tribal village for lunch and interplay with tribals. 

Just two days after the beginning of the BJP authorities’s 5 mega yatras, the Mandla district will host a mega Adivasi Sammellan of the opposition Congress, which will probably be addressed by state occasion chief Kamal Nath. The occasion will coincide with the 459th demise anniversary of the courageous queen. 

Importantly, tribals represent 21% of MP’s inhabitants and 47 out of the full 230 meeting seats are reserved for tribals. Out of those 47 seats, the ruling BJP had gained 29 seats and the Congress 18 within the 2008 meeting polls. In 2013 polls, the saffron occasion emerged victorious on 31 seats, whereas the Congress gained 16 seats. 

In the 2018 polls, the story was reversed, because the Congress emerged triumphant on 31 seats, whereas the BJP needed to be content material with simply 15 seats, and one seat was gained by a Congress insurgent. 

The BJP authorities’s 5 mega yatras devoted to Rani Durgavati will notably traverse by tribal dominated components of Vindhya area, which home 30 meeting seats, Mahakoshal area which has 38 seats and a few components of Bundelkhand area. 

In the 2013 elections, the BJP had gained 24 out of the 30 seats in Vindhya area, whereas the Congress was a distant second with simply six seats. On the opposite, the Congress had gained 24 out of the 38 seats within the Mahakoshal area, whereas the BJP had managed to win simply 13 seats, adopted by one seat to a Congress insurgent.