The Congress and BJP’s efforts to convince some of their rebels to bow out of the contest at the last minute were a success, but, many have remained in the poll fray as the deadline for withdrawal of nomination has ended.
The deadline ended on Thursday and not all rebels from both parties backed out. Many of the rebels have stayed put as independent candidates after they were denied tickets from their respective political parties — the Congress and the ruling BJP. This has made the contest more interesting. Importantly, in some of these seats, the rebels are from close families.
The Congress leadership managed to convince around one-and-a-half dozen of its workers to withdraw their nomination and give a sense of relief for the party’s candidates, however, the problem could not be resolved in nearly a dozen of Assembly seats.
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For instance, rebel Congress candidate Antar Singh Darbar did not withdraw his nomination from the Dr Ambedkar Nagar-Mhow Assembly constituency and announced instead that he was leaving the party.
Darbar, a two-time Congress MLA, filed papers as an independent on October 29 after the party denied him a ticket. The Congress instead fielded Ramkishore Shukla. Shukla had left Congress and joined the BJP but he was cajoled back to the party fold by state Congress chief Kamal Nath last month.
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