Madhya Pradesh

In the last two decades, the Congress has ruled the state barely for 15 months. This is the reason why the saffron party is facing a strong anti-incumbency in the state and is mulling to contest the elections by keeping Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face in the front.

Madhya Pradesh-based political observers say that the BJP has never looked so unorganised and insipid through its long period in power since 2003. Nor has Chief Minister Chouhan appeared so vulnerable. Such has been his dominance in the party that no credible alternative to him has emerged.

The strategy planners of the state Congress have planned to set up at least two separate war rooms with multiple tasks -- execution of the plans on the ground and social media. Highly placed sources privy to the development said one war room will be operated from Kamal Nath's son and the only.

The party is also focusing on the guarantees, that proved a boon for it in the states of Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka, to connect with the people in Madhya Pradesh. The Congress kicked off its poll campaign in the state on June 12, when party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra addressed a public meeting in Jabalpur.

Besides these, the ruling side is also struggling with rampant factionalism coming to the fore at intervals along with allegations of huge corruption in the government. This has compelled the party's central leadership to take command in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. Highly placed sources in the BJP claimed that the state.

On Wednesday, he went to the Madhya Pradesh unit Congress headquarters in Bhopal, and joined the grand old party. Yadav, based in Shivpuri, was welcomed into the party fold by state Congress president Kamal Nath and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh.

The state government is announcing a series of populist schemes and freebies to woo the voters while the state is reeling under debt of around Rs 3.5 lakh crore. Experts say that the average per capita debt in the state has sharply increased in the past five-six years. If the debt figures are taken into consideration, every citizen in the state has a debt of Rs 41,000.

This happened after the workers of 'Bajrang Sena' reached the Congress headquarters in large numbers to extend their support to the party ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled to be held later this year.

Although, the saffron party had lost the 2018 last elections, and the Congress led by veteran leader Kamal Nath managed to come back to power after 15 years in the state, shifting of 22 MLAs to the BJP (in support of Jyotiraditya Scindia) had brought the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government back into power again in March 2020.

Sahasrabuddhe, a former national vice-president of the BJP and president of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), said this during his visit to Bhopal on Friday. Responding to queries from the press over the buzz of possible changes in state BJP unit, Sahasrabuddhe said the central leadership of the party has never.