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Mandsaur Lok Sabha seat: No one expected that the new and young candidate Meenakshi Natarajan, who is contesting the elections for the first time, would be able to compete with Dr. Pandey, who won eight elections.
By Alok Sharma
Publication Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:19 AM (IST)
Date Updated: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:19 AM (IST)
Highlights
- Dr. Pandey has made it an impenetrable stronghold for the BJP by defeating all the Congress stalwarts.
- Nor did the electoral environment mean that Dr. Lakshminarayan Pandey seems unsteady.
- In the 2009 elections, the Congress got the maximum 45 percent votes.
Mandsaur Lok Sabha seat: Alok Sharma, Mandsaur. Although Mandsaur Lok Sabha constituency has been a stronghold of Jan Sangh and BJP. The Congress candidates had very little success in the elections held here. In the 17 elections held since independence, only a number of Congress candidates who can be counted on the fingers have won the elections. After the 1989 Lok Sabha elections, Dr. Lakshminarayan Pandey, known as the Gandhi of Malwa, and the seat of Mandsaur have become synonymous with each other.
In the elections held in the years 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, Dr. Pandey has made it an impenetrable stronghold for the BJP by defeating all the Congress stalwarts. When no senior Congress leader could win against Dr Pandey Rahul Gandhi Meenakshi Natarajan, who was part of the team, was sent to contest the Mandsaur Lok Sabha constituency elections. No one expected that the new and young candidate Meenakshi Natarajan, who was fighting for the first time, would be able to compete with Dr. Pandey, who had won eight elections.
At that time, the electoral environment also did not mean that Dr. Lakshminarayan Pandey seems unsteady. But when the results came, the tables had turned. Everyone was stunned.
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