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Conflict ends, Tomar camp candidate to battle mayor ballot 

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BHOPAL:  After days of suspense over who would be the BJP candidate for the mayoral polls from Gwalior, the birthday celebration in any case on Wednesday night time named Suman Sharma as its candidate for the election scheduled to occur subsequent month.

Suman Sharma used to be the candidate favoured by way of the camp of Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. The only led by way of Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia used to be backing ex-mayor Samiksha Gupta. The verdict got here 3 days earlier than the ultimate date of submitting nomination papers.

The Gwalior mayor’s put up is reserved for a girl from the overall class. Sharma is the daughter-in-law of the two-time former BJP MLA from Gwalior Meeting seat and ex-mayor, Dharam Veer Sharma. She has previous been the Gwalior district BJP Mahila Morcha leader and the state basic secretary of the similar wing.

Sharma will tackle Congress candidate Shobha Sikarwar, a two-time municipal councilor and spouse of Gwalior East Congress MLA Satish Sikarwar. The lengthy watch for the announcement took place it sounds as if because of a loss of consensus on a not unusual candidate between the Tomar and Scindia camps.

The Tomar camp used to be additionally batting for BJP Mahila Morcha chief Khushboo Gupta. Former MP minister and birthday celebration veteran Maya Singh, who is expounded to the Scindia circle of relatives, couldn’t get the birthday celebration’s nod. The 71-year-old used to be herself now not very willing to contest the polls. Polls to elect mayors in 15 towns of MP will probably be held in two levels on July 6 and July 13.

Family members in the fray
Whilst BJP has in large part fielded its and RSS staff, it has post outgoing mayor Madhuri Patel from Burhanpur, regardless of opposition by way of cadre. Her husband Atul Patel is former mayor, and the cadres really feel the put up has were given one circle of relatives’s dangle. In Khandwa, BJP has fielded Amrita Yadav, daughter-in-law of ex-MLA Hukum Chand Yadav and spouse of outgoing Municipal Corp. head Amar Yadav