Kamal Nath Should Retire from Politics: 'Giant Killer' Vivek Sahu on Breaching Nath Family Bastion
In a remarkable turn of events, Vivek ‘Bunty’ Sahu, the 45-year-old chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Chhindwara unit, emerged victorious in the recent Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh. Sahu earned the title of ‘giant slayer’ after defeating Congress’s sitting MP Nakul Nath, son of former chief minister Kamal Nath, by a significant margin of 1,13,618 votes in Chhindwara, a constituency long dominated by the Nath family. Bharatiya Janata Party’s Chhindwara unit chief Vivek ‘Bunty’ Sahu. This victory is a milestone for Sahu, who had previously faced three electoral defeats at the hands of the Nath family. Sahu’s earlier attempts included losing to Nakul Nath in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and twice to Kamal Nath in the 2019 Madhya Pradesh assembly bypolls and the assembly elections held last year. The triumph is also pivotal for the BJP, which had struggled to breach the Nath stronghold despite its nearly two decades of rule in the state. In an exclusive interview with The In...