Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan filed his nomination as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Budhni Assembly constituency on Monday.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will contest against Congress candidate Vikram Mastal and Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Mahamandaleshwar Swami Vairagyanand Giri alias Mirchi Baba.

Before filing nomination papers, CM Chouhan visited his village Jait in the district, held a roadshow, and also addressed a public gathering in the district. “We will serve the public and will do it in such a way that the world would remember that someone had come. My life aims to make the lives of the people better. I want to tell the women of the entire state that in the coming five years I will make every sister a Lakhpati Didi,” Quoted by CM Chouhan.

Chouhan contested the 2013 assembly polls from Vidisha and Budhni and won both the seats. However, he later resigned from Vidisha to retain the Budhni assembly seat. Chouhan also represented the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat five times.

The Madhya Pradesh Election 2023 will see a tight contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have also fielded their candidates for the state polls.