Congress holds strategy meet, plans to raise issues of corruption, price rise

With lower than 6 months left for the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, the Opposition Congress on Monday held a strategy assembly right here the place it drew up a plan to tackle the BJP authorities and make corruption a key election plank.

Congress basic secretary KC Venugopal, Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath, and AICC in-charge of MP Jai Prakash Agrawal chaired the assembly of the state’s political affairs committee which lasted for 2 hours.

During the assembly, celebration leaders primarily targeted on making corruption a key election difficulty to tackle the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP authorities, Congress sources stated.

Senior celebration leaders of the state attended the assembly.

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According to the sources, Congress goes to raise corruption, price rise, and state’s rising debt, amongst different issues, vociferously within the run-up to the elections seemingly to be held by the year-end.

“Corruption is going to be our major poll plank,” a senior Congress chief instructed PTI.

Emerging from the assembly held at Nath’s official bungalow, Venugopal expressed confidence his celebration would type the following authorities in MP. Giving particulars of the gathering, Congress MLA and former state minister Jitu Patwari instructed reporters that celebration leaders resolved to work unitedly to unseat the “corrupt” BJP authorities in Madhya Pradesh.

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Patwari claimed the BJP authorities, which assumed workplace in March 2020 after the collapse of the Kamal Nath-led Congress dispensation, had “failed” on all counts and persons are eagerly ready to vote it out.

The final Assembly polls held on November 28, 2018, threw up a hung Assembly, with the Congress rising as the only largest celebration with 114 seats within the 230-member House. The BJP gained 109 seats.

The Congress, after 15 years in Opposition, shaped a coalition authorities below Kamal Nath, nevertheless it fell in March 2020 after a number of MLAs loyal to Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned and joined the BJP, paving the way in which for Shivraj Singh Chouhan to return as chief minister.