In November, the by-elections to 28 seats had been held in the state, out of which 3 seats had turn out to be vacant due to the deaths of the sitting MLAs. These seats had been Biaora, Jora and Agar. The Jora seat was won by the BJP and the other two went to the Congress.
In 25 seats, direct contests had been held amongst Scindia loyalists and Congress candidates. The Congress scored in nine seats in which seven Scindia loyalists had got defeated. Among them had been the 3 ministers, Imarti Devi, Girraj Dandotia and Adal Singh Kansana. The other 4 had been Jasmant Jatav, Ranvir Jatav, Raghuraj Singh Kansana and Munnalal Goyal.
On Friday, BJP leader Scindia visited Bhopal and met Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. During the take a look at, Scindia and the 3 ex-ministers had been in the limelight, but the other 4 had been out of sight in Scindia’s convoy.
Four are feeling isolated
Sources mentioned the 4 had been feeling isolated in the new celebration as they had lost their MLA seats and now had been feeling cheated mainly because no a single appears to be speaking about their “sacrifice”.
Interestingly, these 4 are also very first-time MLAs they had remained MLAs for 15 months and now they had turned into ex-MLA. If they want to turn out to be MLAs, they will have to wait till November 2023 to contest the elections. Till then, they are at the mercy of Scindia and the BJP government if they want to get a appropriate position in the boards or in the corporation.