Madhya Pradesh polls LIVE: Complete faith in voters of MP, says Kamal Nath

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly election: The election campaigning for the upcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh concluded on Wednesday. With this, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has issued a list of public meetings held by the party's star campaigners in the state in the last 30 days.

According to the list, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held 15 public meeting, while MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan addressed 160 meetings in the state in view of the polls scheduled to be held on Friday (November 17).

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday attacked Union minister and her former party colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia, calling him a traitor. Priyanka was addressing a rally to canvass for the Congress candidate in the Datia Assembly seat of Madhya Pradesh.

On the other hand, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan stressed on his government’s flagship Ladli Behna scheme. He called it a “life changer” for women. Chouhan also assured that if the BJP government is formed, those women who are left out will be added to the list of beneficiaries of the Ladli Behna Yojana through a portal.

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Poll staffer dies after chest pain in Madhya Pradesh

A 55-year-old employee of the Madhya Pradesh government engaged in Assembly poll duty died on Thursday after experiencing chest pain in Betul town of the state, an official said.

Bhimrao, employed as a watchman with the MP Public Health Engineering Department and posted on poll duty at booth number 123 at a girls’ school, experienced chest pain, Multai Sub Divisional Magistrate Trupti Pateria said.
 

The victim was rushed to a hospital where he died during treatment, the SDM said, adding that the family members of the deceased have been informed about his demise.

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Congress' extreme false propaganda is continuing, says Mayawati

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'Didn't expect Priyanka to stoop so low':Shivraj Singh Chouhan

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Watch | Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Chouhan interacts with women, children

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MP polls: BJP confident of retaining state's central region

Madhya Pradesh's central region, spread around capital Bhopal and other surrounding areas, has emerged as a BJP stronghold over the past three decades even as a combative Congress eyes a comeback there in the state polls scheduled on Friday.

 

While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) says it has worked according to the socio-political equations and gained further in its citadel, the opposition Congress says it has rectified its mistakes and claims the results will be different in the region this time.

 

A political observer claimed the BJP's dominance is likely to continue in the region this time also.

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Kamal Nath on Jyotiraditya Scindia tweet against Priyanka Gandhi

On Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia's tweet, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and state Congress president Kamal Nath said, "What Jyotiraditya Scindia used to say for Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he was in Congress, is not erased. Now, he is saying for Congress what he used to say for them."

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In battle for states: BJP, Congress reach out to seers; field fewer Muslims

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, principal rivals in the three poll-bound Hindi heartland states, have fielded more candidates from the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and fewer from the minority Muslim community while also courting several Hindu religious leaders as the two parties gear up for the electoral battle in the key states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
 

In Madhya Pradesh, the ruling BJP has not fielded a single Muslim among its 230 candidates. The Congress has fielded two, both from Bhopal – its sitting legislator Arif Masood from Bhopal Central seat and Atif Aqueel, son of its ailing sitting legislator Arif Aqueel from Bhopal North. In 2018, Aqueel Senior defeated BJP’s Fatima Rasool Siddique, the party’s lone Muslim candidate in the state.

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MP polls: Polling parties leave for polling centres from Indore

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Scindia saying things he used to say for PM, Shivraj Chouhan: Kamal Nath

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'Complete faith in the voters of Madhya Pradesh': Kamal Nath

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and state Congress president Kamal Nath on Thursday said that he has complete faith in the people of the state.

"I have complete faith in the voters of Madhya Pradesh. After looking at the state where every category is troubled, they will side with the truth...All of us have made all the efforts. We did what we had to do, they [BJP] did what they had to do," Nath said.

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Watch | Preparations for polling underway in MP's Bhopal

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Polling material being distributed to election officials in MP's Chhindwara