Chhindwara (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 8 : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday expressed confidence over winning the Amarwara assembly bypoll saying that just like the Lok Sabha election of Chhindwara, they would win the Amarwara bypoll too.
Amarwada assembly seat is scheduled to undergo a bypoll on July 10 after the sitting MLA from the seat Kamesh Shah switched sides from the Congress party to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha election in March this year. Shah took membership of the BJP along with his wife Madhavi Shah and sister Kesar Netam in the presence of CM Mohan Yadav, state BJP chief VD Sharma and others at CM House on March 29.
"It is a matter of happiness that the way results are being seen in Amarwara, people are working and our workers are going door to door. The response that is received, it is definitely true that just like we won the Lok Sabha elections of Chhindwara, in the same way, we will win the Amarwara elections too," CM Yadav told ANI.
CM Yadav also took a potshot at former CM and veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath saying the latter betrayed the people of Chhindwara.
"Congress leader Kamal Nath has betrayed the people of Chhindwara. The BJP won for the first time in Chhindwara and now the BJP will create a new record of development in Amarwara and in the state as well," he added.
Last month, the Election Commission announced the date to hold bye-elections to fill vacancies in 13 assembly constituencies of seven states. These seats were vacant due to the resignations or deaths of the sitting MLAs. The elections will be conducted on July 10 and the counting of the votes will be done on July 13.
Kamlesh Shah is contesting the bypoll from Amarwada assembly seat on BJP symbol while the Congress party has fielded Dheeransha Invati from the seat.
Notably, Chhindwara has been the stronghold of Kamal Nath and the Congress party. There are a total of seven assembly seats in Chhindwara district and all the MLAs were from the Congress party. But after Kamlesh Shah joined the BJP, now the Congress party was left with six MLAs in the district.
Besides, the BJP won the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency in the recently concluded general elections.