There are 2,533 candidates in the fray including political heavyweights like Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his predecessor and rival Kamal Nath
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Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath, whose tenure as chief minister ended abruptly in March 2020, is making a renewed attempt to bring his party to power in the state, but is facing a tough challenge from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for his own election from home turf of Chhindwara. The 76-year-old Congress veteran, the sitting MLA from Chhindwara who projects himself as an ardent 'Hanuman bhakt', is pitted against BJP candidate Vivek Bunty Sahu, a 'Shiv bhakt', in the November 17 assembly polls. Both of them also locked horns in the 2018 assembly polls when Nath trounced Sahu (44) by a margin of 25,837 votes. Since then, Sahu, renominated from the seat by the ruling party and backed by the well-oiled BJP organisational machinery, is seeking to avenge his defeat. The BJP candidate is a former Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha president for Chhindwara district and is well aware of the star constituency's voter profile and caste combinations. The saffron party is leaving no
Calling on voters in Madhya Pradesh to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in power, Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said the development of their state will come to a halt if the Congress won the elections. Campaigning for the saffron party ahead of the November 17 assembly polls, he also accused Congress leaders of forgetting election promises after coming to power. "At present, there is a double engine BJP government in Madhya Pradesh (with BJP ruling in the state and at the Centre), but if the Congress comes to power by a small mistake, the train of development will stop, because the engine of the Narendra Modi government will try to take this train forward on the path of progress, and (Kamal) Nath government's engine will pull it backwards," Fadnavis said at a rally in Indore-3 constituency. . Prime Minister Modi has introduced a new model of welfare of the poor and inclusive development, the BJP leader added. The Congress is promising freebie
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'When nobody in the INDIA alliance trusts Congress, how can people in Madhya Pradesh believe in that party?' asked Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
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Launching barbs at the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in the state, Shah said, "Whenever Congress ruled, it only worked to fill its houses. Whereas the BJP worked for development"
The Congress in Madhya Pradesh has expelled 39 leaders from the party's primary membership for six years for contesting the upcoming state assembly elections against the party's official candidates, its functionary said. These 39 leaders were expelled from the Congress on the directives of the party' state unit chief Kamal Nath, a release issued by the party's state vice-president Rajiv Singh said. These expelled leaders are contesting elections either as independent candidates or on the ticket of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), it said. Some of the prominent names against whom the action was taken include former MP Premchand Guddu (Alot), former MLA Antar Singh Darbar (Mhow), former MLA Yadvendra Singh (Nagod), state party spokesman Ajay Singh Yadav (Khargapur), Nasir Islam (Bhopal North) and Amir Aqueel (Bhopal North). Elections to the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly will be held on November 17. While the ruling Bharatiya
Kamal Nath said that he had contested elections for the last 40 years but he had never seen such an election where the question was about the future of the state
'Shivraj Singh Chouhan has put a lock on the future of Madhya Pradesh and this lock opens only when you pay a 50 per cent commission,' said Kamal Nath on Wednesday
Dubbing Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as 'thagraj' (king of cheats), Kamal Nath alleged the latter had deceived the people of the state in his 18-year rule
Slamming Kamal Nath, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said 'Those who called MP a chaupat pradesh, used to try to ruin the state'
Kamal Nath's son Nakul Nath urged people to support the Congress party and invited them to come to Kamal Nath's oath ceremony on December 7
The Congress has so far announced 151 candidates for the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, which will go to polls on November 25
'People in the state feel they've been taken for a ride over the past 18 years. MP is the most corrupt state in the country, and its people are either victims of corruption or witnesses to it'