{"id":505900,"date":"2024-03-20T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=505900"},"modified":"2024-03-20T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T10:47:59","slug":"abhishek-bachchan-sp-khajuraho-madhya-pradesh-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/abhishek-bachchan-sp-khajuraho-madhya-pradesh-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Abhishek Bachchan make his political debut for SP from Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh awash with buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Neeraj Mishra<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress, which has steadily lost ground in Madhya Pradesh over the past three decades, has given the Khajuraho seat to its INDIA ally Samajwadi Party. Strictly speaking, the socialist party had some base in the Jabalpur region but for some undisclosed reason they chose the Khajuraho seat instead. Now, there is some talk of Jaya Bachchan\u2019s son Abhishek being fielded from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaya Bachchan is the Samajwadi Party&#8217;s Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradsh and is a vocal presence in the House. Abhishek\u2019s film career is going nowhere and he expects to find luck like Sunny Deol, who became an MP from Gurdaspur on a BJP ticket and then delivered a hit. Hema Malini had garnered tickets for both her husband Dharmendra and stepson Sunny. Jaya Bachchan is expected to do the same for Abhishek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Akhilesh Yadav himself has said nothing about it so far, social media is abuzz with pictures of Abhishek. Khajuraho has been with the BJP for the past 20 years with Uma Bharti and BJP state president VD Sharma as its MPs. Sharma is already a declared candidate and he may not be relishing the prospect of seeing Abhishek as his opponent. Small towns and backward regions can sometimes deliver results against the current wave when stars are deployed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As regards waves, Madhya Pradesh, as a whole, has always voted for the party which was expected to form the government at the centre. The Congress won its last major victory in 1991 when it delivered 27 MPs for the PV Narasimha Rao government. By 1996, the BJP was on the ascendance and it bagged 27. In 1999, the BJP improved its tally to 29 to Congress\u2019s 11. The Atal factor was at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first elections after the division of the state in 2000, the BJP led by Uma Bharti captured 25 of the 29 seats in the state in 2004. People had voted again for the India Shining wave. But by 2009, the Manmohan Singh government\u2019s performance helped improve its tally in the state to 12 to BJP\u2019s 16 and one seat went to the BSP. In 2014, the Modi wave swept everyone aside as the Congress managed only Chhindwara and Guna which declined to only one seat in 2019. It may remain so if Kamal Nath\u2019s deal with the BJP works, to allow his son to win Chhindwara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under these circumstances it is a wonder why the Congress wants to keep contesting all seats in the state and not share more with its more effective INDIA partners. Perhaps, the SP could have been given three seats with the condition to bring in more star power. The BSP has declined miserably in the state but the RJD could have been offered a seat from Rewa, Satna or Sidhi on the eastern borders. None of these parties will ever replace the Congress in the state but it could have at least lightened its burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress could offer its INDIA partners with more seats in the state as they could be more effective in challenging the BJP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":505903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,125714],"tags":[67310,143,144044,69360,162361,41495,131914,84],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20153236\/ezgif-5-68e6bf9baf-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505900"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=505900"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=505900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->