India, May 10 -- Days after the Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Indore, Akshya Kanti Bam, withdrew his nomination at the last moment, the party has put its weight behind a campaign asking people to go to vote, NOTA, when the city votes in the fourth phase on May 13.

Bam stunned the Congress on April 29 when he went to the Indore district collector's office along with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and BJP legislator Ramesh Mendola, and withdrew his nomination. Vijayvargiya announced Akshya Kanti Bam's surprising move in a post on X. H, along with a photograph with Bam and other senior state BJP leaders. Bam later joined the BJP, which had repeated sitting MP Shankar Lalwani, 62, from the Indore seat.

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