MP Cong makes strong plea for young, clean CM candidate

A strong plea for projection of a young and clean leader as the Chief Ministerial candidate in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh was voiced at a meeting of the Congress coordination committee of the state here.
The meeting held yesterday saw two leaders making a pitch for projection of a CM candidate to take on BJP's Shivraj Singh Chauhan.
The meeting, at which the newly-appointed Congress general secretary Mohan Prakash was also present, saw state leaders projecting a picture of unity.
The overall atmosphere at the meeting was quite positive, one member said adding there has been a growing realisation that Congress should get back Madhya Pradesh which it had lost in 2003.

Congress in the state has been plagued by intense factionalism in the last several years which only worsened after it lost power to BJP.
Several senior leaders were present at the meeting which included Digvijay Singh, Kamal Nath, Suresh Pachauri, PCC Chief Kantilal Bhuria, CLP leader Ajay Singh, Aslam Sher Khan, Satyavrat Chaturvedi and Inderjeet Patel.
Last month, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh had gave a thrust to Jyotiraditya Scindia's potential candidature as Chief Minister.
"I have no doubt in my mind that Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia is the front-runner for the post of the Chief Minister in Madhya Pradesh if the party wins this year's assembly elections," Singh, who had been Chief Minister for two terms, had said.