BJP fields Jyotiraditya Scindia from MP's Guna — a seat he lost to PM Modi's party in 2019

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jyotiraditya Scindia is all set to fight the Lok Sabha 2024 polls from the Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh — the seat he had lost to the BJP in the 2019 general elections.

Scindia, who is also the Minister of Civil Aviation, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections as a Congress candidate. He had lost the Guna seat to the BJP candidate Krishna Pal Singh or KP Yadav. Scindia had then received 4,86,105 votes — losing the contest by a margin of around 1.25 lakh votes.

The Guna Lok Sabha seat was known to be a bastion of Scindias since 1957.

has been a five-term Member of Parliament. This includes four terms in the (2002-04, 2004-09, 2009-14 and 2014-19), and a term in the Rajya Sabha representing the state of Madhya Pradesh.

In 2014, Scindia was as chief whip of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, and in 2019 as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary In-Charge for Uttar Pradesh West and Member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).

However, Scindia quit the . And within hours, he was nominated for the Rajya Sabha. collapse of the

Now, almost four years later, Scindia has been fieled as BJP candidate from Guna, while Krishna Pal Yadav is the sitting MP from the constituency.

Meanwhile, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was replaced as CM after 2023 assembly polls, got a BJP ticket from the Vidisha constituency. Ganesh Singh, the sitting MP who faced defeat in the 2023 assembly elections, was fielded again from Satna.

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Meanwhile, MPs from Gwalior (Vivek Shejwalkar), Sagar (Rajbahadur Singh), Bhopal (Pragya Singh Thakur), Ratlam (Guman Singh Damor), Vidisha (Ramakant Bhargava) and Guna (KP Singh Yadav) did not figure in the