The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold a Central Election Committee meeting on September 30 for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh in the national capital to brainstorm on candidates for the upcoming assembly elections, according to sources.
Samajwadi party Chief Akhilesh Yadav slammed the 'double engine' Government of Madhya Pradesh. The SP supremo lashed out at the state government and criticized the condition of women in the state. He expressed happiness, calling Congress's support for the caste census a big change.
Hours after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fielded him in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, party's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Monday said that the central leadership's decision was "surprising" and that he will do whatever they say.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its second list of 39 candidates for the forthcoming assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh including Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahlad Singh Patel.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed Jitu Patwari, former minister in the Kamal Nath government as the co-chairman of the Campaign Committee for Madhya Pradesh Congress.
With the assembly elections in line in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader Kamal Nath slammed the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the student’s protest over the exams and results.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh took a pot-shot on Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and said that “He is a diamond and we shaped him.”
During the meeting, the committee deliberated on all the seats that the BJP had lost in the previous assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. Approximately 36 out of 37 seats were discussed, where the BJP had faced defeat in the last legislative polls.
Key leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah, along with other members of the election committee will be participating in the meeting.
"Our duty is to deliver elections before time as per constitutional provisions and the RP Act. Article 83 (2) says that 5 years will be the term of the Parliament and its corresponding section 14 of the RP Act says that 6 months before, we can announce the elections. A similar situation exis
Madhya Pradesh is among the five states where assembly elections are to be held later this year to elect 230 members of the state. In the 2018 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Congress emerged as the single largest party with 114 seats and BJP got 109 seats.