Congress has 'leaders of constituencies' in Madhya Pradesh; no match to Chouhan: Jha

Confident of the BJP getting its fourth innings to rule Madhya Pradesh, the party's senior leader Prabhat Jha has said the rival Congress has got only "leaders of constituencies" in the state as against a mass leader the saffron party has got in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

Jha, the BJP national vice president, said the results of the assembly polls on December 11 will end the Congress' run for good while launching the fourth innings of governance for his party in the state.

"I can say without any hitch that we shall make the government again (in MP). It is true that elections are always tough but it is also true that we shall make government again here," he said.

Jha claimed that the "Congress is nowhere" in Madhya Pradesh.

"Nowhere in the sense that they have no leader. They have leaders of constituencies. When we talk about Jyotiraditya Scindia, he won his Guna (parliamentary) seat only... in Bhind, Morena and Gwalior, we won. Then how can he say he is the leader there?.

"Kamal Nath ji (PCC President) is there only in Chhindwara. There are seven assembly seats in his parliamentary constituency and we won four. Then how can he say that I am the leader of the state?," Jha said.

The Rajya Sabha MP from the state is the man in-charge of organising the party's high-voltage election campaign in the state and apart from poll rallies he chairs numerous strategy meetings with party workers in various parts of the state daily.

The 61-year-old leader said the Congress was reduced to being a "election party."
Asked about the anti-incumbency wave which the party would have gathered after 15 long years in government, Jha said, "There is no anti-incumbency. The same situation was there in 2008 and 2013 polls...some factor of anti-incumbency could be there but Shivraj Singh Chouhan has dealt with it well by forging excellent social relations."