With the announcement, Madhya Pradesh will have two more districts - Mauganj and Nagda. The announcement comes in the election year in the state.
Madhya Pradesh: Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Tuesday attended a key BJP meeting held in the state ahead of the assembly election.
Kamal Nath government collapsed after then Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia carried out a coup against his government.
"The results are not on the expected lines... The results are certainly an opportunity for BJP leadership and cadres to pause and analyse", he said.
Three ministers are among the MLAs who have been denied renomination, while seats of several legislators of the ruling party have been changed.
The video clip which has gone viral shows Indore MLA Jitu Patwari telling an elderly couple, "mera khayal rakhna, meri izzat rakhna, party gayi tel lene (forget the party and vote for me...save my reputation)."
"This tsunami would cover the entire country, including West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala," Shah said.
Claiming that the people of the state were facing a difficult situation due to the 15-year BJP rule, the NCP said that it would work towards generating employment for youth.
Taking a dig at Manmohan Singh for slamming PM Narendra Modi over his frequent foreign tours, Amit Shah said that the former PM had actually taken more international trips than Modi.
"The government releases small funds to the (MPGEPS) board. An independent ministry will work in a better way to serve cows," the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said.
Chouhan added that the BJP makes policies for every section of the society. “We make right policies, with right intentions and deliver it to people so that change can be brought about in people’s lives. We don’t just talk of Made in…everywhere,” the MP CM tweeted.
PM Modi addressed BJP's Karyakarta Mahakumbh - 'world's largest gathering of people'. Around 13 lakh party workers attended the event in Bhopal today.
Watch exclusive interview with Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Gandhi was addressing a public meeting in Bhopal after holding a 15 kilometre roadshow to kickstart the Congress’ campaign for the assembly polls slated later this year.
Before Gandhi's visit, posters and cutouts of Congress president and other party leaders came up in Bhopal. In the posters, Gandhi was shown as a devotee of Lord Shiva.
Gandhi's roadshow will start from Lalghati Chowk and conclude at Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd's Dussehra Maidan.
The tenure of MP Assembly is ending on 7 January 2019.
The state Assembly polls are slated for later this year.
“The Bahujan Samaj Party will contest the elections as a part of coalition only if it gets a respectable number of seats,” Mayawati said.
Both BJP and Congress are planning to reach out to people on popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter. They would specially focus on WhatsApp, owing to its wide reach.
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