Guna:BJP candidate and Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has won from Guna Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 5.4 lakh votes as per Election Commission counting data. He has secured 9,23,302 votes while his nearest rival, Yadvendra Singh Yadav of Congress is trailing with 3,82,373 votes.
This seat is witnessing an interesting political scenario as Jyotiraditya Scindia seeks to reclaim the home turf, which he lost in 2019 when he was in Congress. In high-stake Guna, where votes of the Yadav community can tilt the scales, Scindia faced Yadvendra Singh Yadav of Congress. In 2019, Scindia, who was then the Congress candidate, lost the Scindia family bastion to BJP's KP Yadav.
BJP dropped incumbent MP Yadav who had sprung a surprise in 2019 polls, and fielded Scindia, giving the latter the opportunity to regain his family’s stronghold. The opposition Congress also played a strategic move, picking Rao Yadvendra Singh Yadav, to cash in on the discontent among Yadavs in the constituency. Rao Yadvendra Singh Yadav has BJP roots as his father, Late Rao Deshraj Singh Yadav, had previously won the Mungaoli seat thrice for the BJP. Yadvendra joined the Congress in 2023 in the wake of Scindia family’s increasing influence within the saffron party ranks.