CURATED BY – KAILASH DUBEY | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Damoh, after a long wait, BJP also released its second list of 92 candidates in which former Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya has been made the candidate from Damoh Assembly. Along with this, the ticket of present MLA from Hata PL Tantvay has been canceled and ticket has been given to former MLA Uma Devi Khatik. At the same time, BJP has once again expressed confidence in the current MLA Dharmendra Singh Lodhi in Jabera Assembly. If we talk about Damoh Assembly, here after 20 years, once again Jayant Malaiya and Ajay Tandon will be face to face. In 2003, elections were held between these two candidates in which Jayant Malaiya defeated Ajay Tandon by a margin of more than 12000 votes. Since Saturday morning, there was a discussion going on in the entire district as to why BJP has not released its second list yet because everyone's eyes are fixed on Damoh Assembly. Damoh Assembly is currently high profile in the entire Madhya Pradesh because former Congress MLA Rahul Singh had resigned from Congress and joined BJP and by-election was held here in 2021. In which Congress candidate Ajay Tandon defeated Rahul Singh by 17000 votes. Although the BJP government had given the status of Cabinet Minister to Rahul Singh and he was contesting again in the 2023 general elections, but the BJP has expressed its trust only on seven-time MLA and former Finance Minister Jayant Kumar Malaiya. After the announcement of tickets, a lot of enthusiasm was seen among the workers and they expressed their happiness by bursting fireworks.

Ajay Tandon and Jayant Malaiya will be face to face for the third time

Let us tell you that the Congress party has given ticket to Damoh's current Congress MLA Ajay Tandon for the fourth time. Before this he had lost the election twice to Jayant Malaiya. In 1998, Ajay Tandon lost the election to Jayant Malaiya by 5000 votes, whereas in 2003, Jayant Malaiya defeated Ajay Tandon by about 12000 votes. After 20 years, these two candidates are facing each other for the third time.

thorn ticket of current MLA

BJP has canceled the ticket of current MLA PL Tantvay from Hata Assembly and the party has expressed confidence in Uma Devi Khatik, who was a two-time MLA from here. Her name was running high in the survey and ultimately she was made the candidate. Whereas in Jabera Assembly, current MLA Dharmendra Singh Lodhi has been made a candidate again. BJP leader Raghavendra Singh was claiming the ticket from here and a few days ago he left Congress and joined BJP, but the party has made Dharmendra Singh Lodhi its candidate. In this way, candidates of both the major parties have been declared for the four assemblies of Damoh district and the process of nomination has also started from 21st.