The legislators from the Mahakoshal region include all six MLAs from Chhindwara and Pandhurna districts (Nath being the seventh MLA) which form Nath’s son Nakul Nath’s Lok Sabha constituency Chhindwara. The list also includes some senior and first-time MLAs from adjoining districts, including ex-minister and third-time sitting MLA from Jabalpur-East seat Lakhan Ghanghoriya, second-time MLA from Paraswada seat Madhu Bhagat, Baihar MLA Sanjay Uike and Waraseoni MLA Vicky Patel.Not just MLAs from the tribal-dominated Mahakoshal region, but some MLAs loyal and close to Nath from other regions also could follow their leader into the BJP.Also, many of Congress’s 2023 assembly poll big losers, including ex-ministers Sajjan Singh Verma, Tarun Bhanot, Vijaylaxmi Sadho, Ravi Joshi and Sukhdev Panse (Verma and Panse are reportedly camping in Delhi) and fourth-time former MLA from Chhindwara seat Deepak Saxena (who had vacated his seat for Nath in 2018) are also likely to walk behind Nath. However, it’s not clear whether senior MLA from Rajpur-ST seat and ex-home minister Bala Bachchan would also follow Nath into the BJP.
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