BHOPAL: AICC on Wednesday evening announced five times MP and the partys long-time tribal face Kantilal Bhuria as its candidate for Jhabua assembly seat bypoll. A release from the office of AICC general secretary Mukul Wasnik said that Congress national president Sonia Gandhi has approved the candidature of Kantilal Bhuria for Jhabua tribal reserved seat.
Former Congress MLA from the seat Javier medha lost out in the race with Bhuria.
This will be the first time that Kantilal Bhuria (69) will be contesting the assembly elections. He was elected Lok Sabha MP from Jhabua in 1998, 1999 and 2004. After delimitation, Jhabua ceased to exist and Bhuria won the next Lok Sabha election from Ratlam in 2009.
He was Union minister of state for agriculture, consumer affairs, food and public distribution in the Manmohan Singh, UPA-1 government. In UPA -2 he was Union minister for tribal affairs till July 2011.
In 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Bhuria was defeated for the first time by the man he defeated four times – BJPs veteran Dileep Singh Bhuria. In that election Dileep Singh Bhuria defeatedRead More – Source
