External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here on Tuesday stunned every politician with her announcement that she would not contest Lok sabha poll over health issues.

Speaking to the media in Indore, Swaraj said she has conveyed her decision of not contesting Lok Sabha polls to the party leadership and briefed them about the health issues she was facing.

The Union Minister told the scribes that after a surgery she has developed allergy for dust. To add, Swaraj has not been well since she underwent kidney transplantation in the year 2016. She had stopped coming to Vidisha as well on health issues of late, claim locals.

Sushma represents Vidisha parliamentary constituency in MP she won in 2009 and again in 2014. Vidisha is also known as saffron citadel which gave parliamentarians like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Sushma herself and Shivraj Singh Chouhan who won from here consecutive five times in row from 1991 to 2006.

Besides prominent personality from Jana Sangh Ramnath Goenka too had got elected from Vidisha in 1971. The district is also known for being the home of Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi.

Still, the region constituency lacked on development indicators and the trend was affirmed when a Neeti Ayog report put Vidisha among the most backward district in Madhya Pradesh early this year. Swaraj had clarified then the that poor monitoring led to beneficiaries not availing benefits of govt schemes and stressed on micro management. The announcement from Sushma has fuelled speculations that whether she is backing out from Vidisha.

 After she failed to turn up in Vidisha for long, missing MP posters too had cropped up in Vidisha last year. Many also believe Swaraj could also had fears about a ticket in 2019.