BJP LIVE Updates: In 1st list for MP assembly polls, BJP focuses on seats it lost in 2018, those reserved for SCs/STs

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07:28 (IST)

Congress LIVE Updates

Congress forms political affairs committee for poll-bound Chhattisgarh, Kumari Selja to head it

The Congress constituted a political affairs committee for poll-bound Chhattisgarh on Thursday, with General Secretary Kumari Selja as head.

Its members include Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Deputy Chief Minister T S Singh Deo.

"The Congress president has approved the proposal for the constitution of the Political Affairs Committee of the Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect," according to a party statement.

Chhattisgarh heads to the polls later this year, with the Congress hoping to keep control of the state.

07:21 (IST)

BJP LIVE Updates

In 1st list for MP assembly polls, BJP focuses on seats it lost in 2018, those reserved for SCs/STs

The governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has centred its first list for the upcoming assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh on seats it lost in 2018 and some of them even in 2013, and has placed trust in 14 candidates, including three former ministers, who lost last time.

In what appears to be a strategy shift, the BJP released its first list of 39 candidates, including five women, in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, even before the election schedule was announced, stealing a march on its main rival Congress in terms of election preparation and nominee finalisation.

Madhya Pradesh, whose assembly elections are scheduled for the end of the year, has a 230-member House.

The governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has centred its first list for the upcoming assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh on seats it lost in 2018 and some of them even in 2013, and has placed trust in 14 candidates, including three former ministers, who lost last time.

In what appears to be a strategy shift, the BJP released its first list of 39 candidates, including five women, in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, even before the election schedule was announced, stealing a march on its main rival Congress in terms of election preparation and nominee finalisation.

Madhya Pradesh, whose assembly elections are scheduled for the end of the year, has a 230-member House.

Last week, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), a marginal player in the central state known for its bipolar politics, released its first list of seven candidates, becoming the first political party to do so.

The 39 seats for which the BJP has announced its candidates were lost by the saffron party in the last assembly polls held on November 28, 2018. Of these, the Congress had won 38 seats, while one went to the BSP.

Of these 39 assembly seats, the BJP had failed to win some in 2013 too.



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