BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) is likely to hold a meeting on October 17 and 19 at the party headquarters to discuss the names of the rest of the candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh, sources said on Monday.
"4000 people have expressed their wish to contest the election but we cannot give tickets to 4000 so some people may get upset as of now but later I believe they will keep serving the Congress party," Nath said.
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Several Congress leaders have left the party across the state after not getting a ticket to contest the upcoming assembly election and some vows to teach a lesson to the party.
Earlier on Sunday, Congress released the first list of 144 candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, fielding state unit president and former Chief Minister Kamal Nath from Chhindwara.
Congress leader and a former MLA from Nagod constituency of Madhya Pradesh's Satna, Yadvendra Singh, resigned from the party on Monday after being denied a ticket for the upcoming assembly elections in the state.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur expressed hope that the BJP will perform remarkably well in the upcoming state assembly polls scheduled to be held in five states next month.
In a major boost to the party ahead of the state assembly polls, independent MLA Pradeep Jaiswal from Waraseoni Assembly constituency of Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat District joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday.
"State Congress President Kamal Nath has released the names of 'fused bulbs'. I think the majority of them will lose the election. They all are fused bulbs. The party has ignored the people belonging to the backward classes and women", Vijayvargiya told ANI.
"Under your leadership in Madhya Pradesh, it was always assured that this time the candidates
belonging to the backward classes would be given their rights and privileges during the selection. In Tikamgarh district, there is more than 70 per cent of the voters from backward classes but peopl