Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023: Budhni Assembly Constituency is one of the four legislative assembly seats in the Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh. MP went to polls on November 17 and recorded a voter turnout of 77 per cent, its highest ever. It is a high-profile seat for the BJP as MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has been continuously winning from here for the last two terms.

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Budhini Assembly Election 2023:

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh is currently eying a fifth consecutive term in office. Chouhan is contesting against Congress' Vikram Mastal and Samajwadi Party's Vairagyanand Giri. 

Budhini Elections 2018 and 2013:

In the 2018 polls, CM Chauhan defeated Congress’ Arun Subhashchandra by a huge margin of 58,999 votes. In 2013, MP CM defeated Mahendra Singh Chauhan from this seat.

BJP has been emerging victorious from Budhni for the last 20 years.

Budhni comes under the Vidisha Parliamentary seat Malwa North region of Madhya Pradesh. It is categorised as a rural seat. BJP’s Ramakant Bhargava defeated Congress’ Shailendra Patel to win the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat by a thick margin of 5,03,084 votes.

The seat has over 2,45,049 voters, which include 1,28,167 male voters, and 1,16,873 female voters.

The seat came into existence after 1972. Congress’ Saligram Vakil was the first MLA from this seat. In 1990, BJP opened its account in the Budhni seat with Shivraj Singh Chauhan winning from there. After that Shivraj was elected to Lok Sabha from Vidisha.

As of the upcoming polls, BJP has again fielded Chauhan from Budhni.  Chouhan on Monday filed his nomination from this seat for the fifth time. Chouhan visited his native village of Jait in Sehore district and worshipped his family deity before marching to Budhni, accompanied by his family members as well as the local women beneficiaries of his flagship ‘Ladli Behna’ scheme, to file his papers in the office of the local returning officer.

Congress party on the other hand has fielded Actor Vikram Mastal Sharma against Chouhan. He played Lord Hanuman in 'Ramayan 2'. He said that his entry into politics would be 'mangal' (auspicious) for the people of Budhni.

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Both parties have announced candidates on all 230 seats. All 230 seats of Madhya Pradesh will go to polls on November 17 in a single phase. The counting of votes will be done on December 3.