Cong to declare MP CM candidate at right time: AICC leader

A senior Congress leader today said that the party's chief ministerial candidate for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, slated for later this year, will be announced at the "right time".

"We will choose the party's chief ministerial face in the state through a democratic process and announce it at the right time. Our priority is to get the Congress back to power in Madhya Pradesh," Sanjay Kapoor, AICC secretary in charge of Madhya Pradesh, told PTI.

State Congress president Kamal Nath and campaign committee chief Jyotiraditya Scindia are believed to be top contenders for chief ministership if the Congress wrests MP from the BJP.

Kapoor dismissed reports of factionalism in the party and said that all Congressmen were working towards ensuring the end of 15 years of BJP rule in MP.

Speaking about the BJP's swipe that the Congress was unable to project a CM candidate to take on Shivraj Singh Chouhan, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh told PTI that in the 2003 polls, Chouhan himself was not the BJP's face for chief ministership.

The senior Congress leader, who was the state's CM from 1993 to 2003, has already ruled himself out of the race for the top post.