Bhopal, July 10 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday announced Ashutosh Tiwari as its candidate for the upcoming Datia Assembly bypoll in Madhya Pradesh, replacing former state Home Minister Narottam Mishra, who had contested and lost the seat in the 2023 state assembly elections.

Reacting to his nomination, Tiwari thanked the party's top leadership for reposing faith in him.

"I bow before and thank the party leadership for choosing an ordinary party worker like me as the BJP candidate from the Datia Assembly constituency. I express my gratitude to all our senior leaders for giving me this opportunity," Tiwari told ANI.

When asked whether the bypoll would be challenging since the BJP had lost the seat in the previous Assembly ...