BHOPAL, April 27 -- In absence of strong opposition in Khajuraho Parliamentary constituency, there is smooth sailing for Vishnu Dutt Sharma, the State president of Bharatiya Janata party (BJP).

He is sitting MP from this constituency. He won this constituency in 2019 with a huge margin of over 4.92 lakh votes by defeating Congress' Maharani Kavita Singh Natiraja.

In this election, Samajwadi Party (SP) had fielded its candidate Meera Deepak Yadav, as a joint candidate for INDI Alliance. However, at the last minute, during the scrutiny of the nomination papers, the District Returning officer found her nomination papers as invalid.

Being former MLA, Meera was a strong candidate in Khajuraho, but after her nomination was rejected, there has ...