Congress leader and former minister Sajjan Singh Verma has hit out at Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra over his comments on party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Nath
A total of 355 candidates, including 12 ministers, had contested the byelections held on November 3
The results have also come as a shot in the arm for former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who took a big political risk by quitting the Congress and joining the BJP in March
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Voting for bypolls in 28 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh began on Tuesday morning
The counsel appearing for the poll panel told a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde that Nath's plea has become infructuous as the campaigning has ended
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The campaign for Assembly bypolls in Madhya Pradesh became more acrimonious on Saturday, with BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia claiming that Congress leader Kamal Nath used the epithet 'dog' for him
Former MP CM Kamal Nath, whose 15-month-old govt collapsed in March this year and led to the BJP's return, has said the voters in the state are simple, naive and poor, but they are intelligent
Jyotiraditya Scindia said that people of the state would make former chief minister Kamal Nath apologise for his comments on a woman leader, on Nov 3 when the Madhya Pradesh bypolls are set to be held
Congress leader Kamal Nath on Saturday said that the people will give a befitting reply to the BJP in the upcoming bypolls in the state
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said the EC order withdrawing star campaigner status from Kamal Nath is unfair
Party leader Vivek Tankha condemned the act and said it was undemocratic
EC has revoked Kamal Nath's name from Congress's star campaigners list in the current MP bypoll campaign after receiving a complaint against him over a comment against MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Nearly a week ahead of by-elections to the 28 MP Assembly seats, the Congress fielded Kamal Nath in Gwalior and Sachin Pilot in the Gwalior-Chambal area -- considered a bastion of Jyotiraditya Scindia
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Kamal Nath, who is the state Congress president, had later expressed regret over it and asserted that he did not say anything disrespectful
"I did not say anything disrespectful. I respect women. If anyone thinks this is disrespectful, then I regret it," Kamal Nath told reporters on Monday night
"One cannot treat women with disrespect. Kamalnath ji is from my party. But I don''t like personally that type of language that Kamalnath ji has used. I do not appreciate it . it is unfortunate"