Khandwa is one of the eight constituencies going to polls on May 19 in the seventh and last phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha Election. Khandwa is one of the eight constituencies going to polls on

May 19 in the seventh and last phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha Election. It consists of the following assembly segments –  Bagali, Mandhata, Khandwa, Pandhana, Nepanagar, Burhanpur, Bikhangaon

and Badwah. Of these, Bagali, Khandwa, Pandhana, Nepanagar and Bikhangaon are reserved for the members of the Scheduled Tribes. The Khandwa Lok Sabha seat will witness a contest between

Nandkumar Singh Chouhan, who is the sitting BJP MP, and Congress's Arun Chandra Yadav. Chauhan and Yadav have served as state unit presidents of their respective parties in the past.

KORKU (THAKUR DADA) Bahujan Samaj Party 3 NANDKUMAR SINGH CHOUHAN (NANDU BHAIYA) Bharatiya Janata Party 4 AAKASH BIRLA Madhya Pradesh Jan Vikas Party 5 KISHOR YADAV Hindusthan Nirman Dal 6

DARASINGH PATEL KHATVASHE Akhil Bhartiya Gondwana Party 7 REENA DAMLE Peoples Party of India (Democratic) 8 RUKUM SHAH All India Ulama Congress 9 NARAYAN CHANDEL Independent 10 BABA ABDUL

HAMEED Independent 11 BHAGWANSINGH PYARSINGH Independent Battle for Madhya Pradesh – Phase 7  Eight constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, which will vote in the last round of seven-phase Lok

Sabha elections on May 19, will decide the fate of a number of key candidates including former Union ministers Kantilal Bhuria and Arun Yadav, sitting MLA Guman Singh Damor and a few

greenhorns, among others.   Also in the running are former state BJP president Nandkumar Singh Chauhan and senior Congress leader Meenakshi Natrajan. The constituencies in the state going to

polls in the last round are Dewas, Ujjain, Mandsaur, Ratlam, Dhar, Indore, Khargone and Khandwa. All eight seats are held by the BJP. Bhuria, the sitting Congress MP from Ratlam-Jhabua seat

is up against Damor, the sitting BJP MLA from Jhabua. This is Damor's maiden parliamentary poll. After retiring as engineer-in-chief from the public health department, Damor joined the

BJP before the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections. In a successful electoral debut, he defeated Bhuria's son Vikrant with a margin of nearly 10,400 votes. Now, Damor is challenging

Bhuria Senior, who has been a Congress MP since 1998 and has lost only one election so far. Bhuria was defeated by Congress turncoat and BJP candidate Dileep Singh Bhuria in the 2014

general election. However, he wrested the seat -- considered a Congress stronghold, from the saffron party in the 2015 bypoll, which was necessitated after Dileep Singh's death. He

defeated the late BJP MP's daughter, Nirmala, with a margin of 88,000 votes. Since 1957, the Congress has only lost the Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha seat thrice -- in 1971, 1977 and 2014.

The electoral battle for Ratlam-Jhabua -- a tribal-dominated seat in western Madhya Pradesh which is considered a Congress stronghold, has witnessed a high-pitched poll campaign. The

BJP's star campaigner Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress stalwarts including party president Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have addressed rallies in

the constituency. The Khandwa Lok Sabha seat will witness a contest between Chauhan, who is the sitting BJP MP, and Congress's Yadav. Chauhan and Yadav have served as state unit

presidents of their respective parties in the past. Chauhan has won from Khandwa five times so far since 1996, except in 2009 when Yadav defeated him. In the 2014 general election, Chauhan

snatched the seat again from Yadav. The BJP leader won with a margin of over 2.5 lakh votes. Mandsaur will see Natrajan, a former lieutenant of Congress president, try her luck again after

being defeated in 2014. She will take on BJP's sitting MP Sudhir Gupta, who had defeated her in the last election by over three lakh votes. Mandsaur made headlines after six farmers

were killed in alleged police firing in 2017, when the BJP was in power in Madhya Pradesh. Subsequent protests, including one by Gandhi, helped the Congress end the BJP's 15-year rule

in the state. In the state's financial capital, Indore, the BJP has fielded former corporator and senior local leader Shankar Lalwani, dropping its eight-time MP and Lok Sabha Speaker

Sumitra Mahajan. Lalwani will take on Congress candidate Pankaj Sanghvi. Both the BJP and the Congress have fielded fresh faces from Dewas. Folk singer Prahlad Tiapaniya will lock horns with

civil judge-turned-politician Mahendra Solanki in this reserved (SC) seat. In Ujjain, which is another reserved seat, two former MLAs are pitted against each other -- Anil Firojia of the

BJP and Babulal Malviya of the Congress. In Dhar, the BJP has fielded former MP Chhattar Singh Darbar against Congress greenhorn Dinesh Girewal. In Khargone, where Modi addressed his last

political rally for this Lok Sabha election, Gajendra Patel of the BJP and Govind Mujalda of the Congress are pitted against each other. Both of them are contesting their maiden

parliamentary election.