Sanchi: Prabhuram Chaudhary or GC Gautam, who will win the race?

Once again, the MP election 2023 in the Sanchi Assembly is going to be between doctors. A strange coincidence is associated with the assembly seat of Sanchi, which is famous throughout the world for the Buddhist stupas of the Ashoka period. Every MLA who has been elected from here for the last 46 years has been a doctor by profession.

This time, the BJP's current MLA is Prabhuram Chaudhary, while the Congress has fielded Dr GC Gautam in Sanchi Assembly. As the election approaches, both parties' campaigning has intensified. Both parties' leaders are constantly engaged in public relations. Madhya Pradesh is one of the five states holding elections this year. The state will hold voting on November 17, and the votes will be counted on December 3. MLAs will be elected from 230 assembly constituencies by voters.

The series of doctor seats for Sanchi in the MP election

The election of doctors from the Sanchi assembly seat began in 1977. Dr Gaurishankar Shejwar became an MLA for the first time on the BJP (Jan Sangh) ticket. He was also elected in 1980. In 1985, Congress ran Dr. Prabhuram Choudhary against Shejwar. Dr. Choudhary earned his medical degree from Gandhi Medical College. In the Indira wave, Prabhuram defeated Shejwar. Dr. Prabhuram's ticket was cancelled in 1990, and Gajju Malaiya was elected instead.

Congress had no choice but to accept defeat. Gaurishankar Shejwar was elected as Minister of State for Home by a landslide. Gaurishankar Shejwar and Prabhuram clashed once more in 1993. Shejwar then defeated Prabhuram. Prabhuram, on the other hand, defeated Shejwar in 1998. In 2003, the Congress again rejected Prabhuram's ticket, and Shejwar won from the BJP. Both of them faced each other again in 2008, with Prabhuram triumphing.

This rivalry progressed, and in 2013, Gaurishankar Shejwar defeated Prabhuram. Dr. Gaurishankar Shejwar from the BJP and Dr. Prabhuram Choudhary from Congress contested the 2018 MP election, but after the poll results, a new form was seen in the politics of Sanchi, also in the state assembly. In the year 2020, Jyotiraditya Scindia joined the BJP with his supported MLAs; along with Scindia, Prabhuram Choudhary also joined the BJP. Dr Prabhuram Choudhary started being counted among the big leaders of the BJP. Gauri Shankar Shejwar, who had maintained the fort of the BJP for years, had gone into exile.

Issues that will affect the election

The MLA from this area is the well-known Dr Prabhu Ram Choudhary, the leader of the Scindia faction, who in 2020 joined the BJP after quitting the Congress. The BJP will not have an easy time in the 2023 assembly elections because fundamental problems like unemployment, access to healthcare, education, and other necessities continue to befall the local population. Although the area has seen the construction of concrete roads and water tanks, the locals claim that the hospitals suffer from a shortage of doctors. The roads also began getting damaged.

Sanchi caste equations

When it comes to the caste equation on this seat, SC/ST votes dominate, determining election victory or defeat. Muslims, Lodhi, Brahmin, Meena, Dangi, Rajput, Kurmi, Jain, Sahu, and Kushwaha all play significant roles. All of the state's political parties are attempting to woo these voters.

Sanchi the first solar-powered town

It is located approximately 46 kilometres from Bhopal and has charted a new course transforming itself into Madhya Pradesh's first solar-powered town of more than 8,000 residents, whose power needs were previously met by hydro and thermal projects. More than 1,600 homes and government buildings are now primarily powered by a 3-megawatt (MW) solar facility located on a hill in Nagori village.

Officials said,

The 5,572 solar panels spread over an area of 4.98 hectares ensure supply from 9 am to 4 pm – “more than adequate to cover Sanchi’s morning load of around 1.5 MW” and “reduce 13,747 tonnes of carbon emissions annually”

Another similar facility in Gulgaon village, which will house a 5 MW solar facility equipped with 11,722 solar panels spread across 11 acres in a month, will take care of the evening and night load. This transformation began with pilot projects in the heritage cities of Khajuraho and Sanchi, and officials stated that "project learnings will be used to develop major cities."

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on September 6.

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