Chachoda district

Chachoda district is a proposed district in Madhya Pradesh, India. Chachoda was approved as a district by state cabinet along with Nagda and Maihar on 18th March 2020. Presently, Chachoda is a part of Guna district. Chachoda district will be formed from Chachoura assembly constituency and a part of Raghogarh assembly constituency.


Chachoura assembly constituency is one of the 230 assembly (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 79 assembly constituencies of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state. Chachoda is the birthplace of Jagannath Prasad Bhaktmali ji.  Incumbent MLA from Chachoura is Priyanka Penchi from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

 Members of Legislative Assembly 
As a constituency of Madhya Bharat state:
 1951: Dwarkadas Ramnarayan, Hindu Mahasabha

As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh state:
 1957: Sagar Singh Sisodia, Indian National Congress
 1962: Prabhu Lal Meena, Independent
 1967: Sagar Singh Sisodia, Swatantra Party
 1972: Krishna Vallabh Gupta, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
 1977: Krishna Vallabh Gupta, Janata Party
 1980: Devendra Singh, Indian National Congress (I)
 1985: Devendra Singh, Indian National Congress
 1990: Ram Bahadur Singh Parihar, Bharatiya Janata Party
 1993: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
 1994: Digvijay Singh, Indian National Congress 
^(in Bye-Election as Chief Minister MP)
 1998: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
 2003: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
 2008: Shivnarayan Meena, Indian National Congress
 2013: Mamta Meena, Bhartiya Janata Party 
 2018: Lakshman Singh, Indian National Congress
 2023: Priyanka Penchi, Bhartiya Janta Party

References

Category:Districts of Madhya Pradesh