By-election blues
Premchand Guddu, former Member of Parliament from Ujjain, recently returned to the Congress. Guddu, a trusted Congress hand, was unhappy with then party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and had switched over to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) right before the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections in 2018. After the ghar wapsi, he is expected to contest from Sanwer during the coming by-elections, which will take place in 24 Assembly seats. They were necessitated because of the death of two MLAs and 22 Congress legislators resigning. The Congress will field big guns like Ajay Singh Rahul, Meenakshi Natarajan, and Guddu. But the