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Congress to release manifesto for MP polls, focus on youth and farmers

The manifesto will be unveiled by MP Congress president Kamal Nath and AICC general secretary Randeep Surjewala in Bhopal today

Madhya Pradesh polls: Rau constituency to see rerun of 2018 contest

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress have repeated their 2018 poll candidates in Rau constituency of Indore district for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The Congress has fielded its sitting MLA and former cabinet minister Jitu Patwari (49) for the fourth time, while the BJP has reposed faith for the second time in its leader Madhu Verma (71), who lost to Patwari in the 2018 poll by a thin margin of 5,703 votes. The Rau Assembly segment, spread over urban and rural parts of Indore, has 3.56 lakh voters, including a sizeable number of farmers. Many of the cultivators have been unhappy with the BJP government's process of acquisition of agricultural land for a proposed economic corridor project. In 2008, Patwari lost this assembly segment to BJP's Jitu Jirati. But in 2013, Patwari won the seat and continued the winning streak in 2018. BJP candidate Verma told PTI that despite being a cabinet minister in the previous Kamal Nath-led Congress ...

Gehlot responsible for stalling East Rajasthan Canal project: Rathore

Rajasthan BJP leader Rajendra Rathore on Monday targeted the Congress' awareness campaign on the ERCP, saying Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath were responsible for stalling the canal project. Interacting with reporters at the BJP headquarters here, Rathore, who is the Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly, said when Nath was the chief minister of neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, he had refused to give a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to Rajasthan for the project. Attacking Gehlot, Rathore said the state government is claiming to complete the project by 2051 and has announced to spend Rs 37,000 crores on it. However, no work has been done till now, Rathore said, adding that Gehlot was not a chief minister but a "minister of announcements". He said the CM had talked about creating an ERCP Corporation and giving Rs 13,000 crore to it but not even a single penny has been spent on the project so far. The then chief minister of Madhya Prad

Obvious for some to get disappointed: Kamal Nath on Congress 1st list

The Congress party on Sunday released its first list of candidates for Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled next month

MP: Yadvendra Singh quits Congress, vows to teach Kamal Nath 'a lesson'

After being denied a ticket for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh polls, Yadvendra Singh slammed Kamal Nath and said that he would teach the latter a lesson

Congress releases list of 144 candidates for MP polls; fields Kamal Nath

Former chief minister Digvijaya Singh's son Jaivardhan Singh has been fielded from the Raghigath seat

As poll heat rises, MP CM engages in war of words with Priyanka, Kamal Nath

A war of words broke out between Congress leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who targeted each other over the implementation of public welfare schemes in the state. While Gandhi accused Chouhan of misleading people and asserted that there was no dictatorship in the Congress unlike the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the chief minister asked why public welfare schemes of his government were stopped when the Kamal Nath-led Congress dispensation was in power in the state. Nath, who is Congress's state unit chief, also hit out at Chouhan, accusing him of using inappropriate language against the Gandhi family and said his party does not give false promises. Addressing a press conference on Friday, Chouhan targeted the Congress and Priyanka Gandhi over the party's promises of free education and cash incentives to students in Madhya Pradesh and alleged that Nath was cheating even the Gandhi family by forcing them to make false .

Gave inflation, corruption and unemployment: Kamal Nath's jibe at Chouhan

Veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath said that his party's priority for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly election is employment

Congress to announce candidates for MP polls after Pitru Paksha: Kamal Nath

The upcoming Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh are crucial for both the BJP and the Congress party

MP people will remove Shivraj Chouhan: Kamal Nath on upcoming polls

He further added that the Bharatiya Janata Party itself should decide by how many seats it would lose this election

From soaring high in 2018 to setback in 2020, what next for Congress in MP?

Up from its tally of 38 in 2003, the Congress edged past the ruling BJP in the 2018 Madhya Pradesh polls winning 114 seats in the 230-member assembly and formed the government. But its dreams were upended in March 2020, after Jyotiraditya Scindia, now a Union minister, and MLAs backing him switched over to the BJP, helping the saffron party wrest power. The Congress is now gearing up to take on the BJP over alleged corruption, jobs and issues tied to tribals, farmers and women. Its morale fortified by the emphatic victory in Karnataka, the Congress could launch an aggressive campaign in MP, and Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, both governed by it, before heading for next year's big-stage contest Lok Sabha polls. Here is a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis of the Congress in the Hindi heartland state. STRENGTHS: *Congress' vote share rose to over 40 per cent in 2018 from 30 per cent two decades ago. *State chief Kamal Nath trying hard to blunt BJP's Hindut

As Pradesh Congress Chief, Kamal Nath is CM face of party in MP: Surjewala

"Kamal Nath is president of Madhya Pradesh Congress and whoever is the president of Pradesh Congress that person is naturally the face of Congress..." Surjewala said

Madhya Pradesh Assembly election: Who are the key candidates from Congress?

The massive victory of the Congress in Karnataka has rekindled hopes for the party's return to power in Madhya Pradesh

People will remember CM Chouhan's lies: Kamal Nath takes on BJP govt

"Will never find a brother like this, you (referring to women in the program) will miss me when I am gone," CM Chouhan said

Played last bet of 'false' hope: Kamal Nath on BJP's 2nd list of candidates

Congress leader Kamal Nath on Monday said that the candidates' list of the BJP, which claims to have crores of party workers, is surely a stamp on the party's internal defeat

'Not the chief ministerial face': Kamal Nath's jibe at Shivraj Chouhan

Congress leader Kamal Nath hit out at Shivraj Singh Chouhan and said that whenever PM Modi visits Madhya Pradesh, Chouhan involves him in his lies

Posters targeting Kamal Nath surfaces in Bhopal ahead of MP polls

Ahead of Madhya Pradesh polls, both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress have been attacking each other over the issue of corruption

Madhya Pradesh polls: Congress meet underway at Kamal Nath's residence

The Congress party will also hold the meeting of the screening committee today to decide on the list of candidates, party sources said

Madhya Pradesh 2023: Comparing state's economic parameters under BJP, Cong

Business Standard analyses the state's progress in the key economic parameters under current govt and sees if it was any better than the previous five years of the Digvijaya Singh govt

Come out of festive mode to help farmers amid drought in MP: Kamal Nath

Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Sunday said the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government needs to come out of the "festive mode" and take immediate steps to provide relief to farmers in view of the drought situation looming large in the state due to scanty rainfall. Nath's statement comes a day after Chouhan urged people of the state to pray for rains as reservoirs in the state are yet to be filled. In a post written on 'X' (formerly Twitter), Nath said this time there is a severe drought situation in Madhya Pradesh. Most parts of the state have received inadequate rainfall. The reservoirs are yet to be filled completely. The crops are drying up. Most of the farmers in the state are getting directly affected by this, he said. "I demand the chief minister to come out of the festive mode and immediately start carrying out a survey and make arrangements to provide relief to farmers," the Congress leader said. Nath added that the chief minister's statement seemed more like a ploy