New Delhi, September 12: With just few months for the crucial Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress on Tuesday held the meeting of the screening committee with its Chairman Jitendra Singh, former Chief Ministers Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh and others also present.

The top leaders of the Madhya Pradesh Congress arrived at the party’s war room here at 15, GRG Road to hold a brainstorming session on the probable candidates for the Assembly elections, scheduled later this year. Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2023: BJP May Finalise Second List of Candidates for MP Vidhan Sabha Polls on September 13.

MP Congress Meeting For Upcoming Assembly Elections

Party sources in know of the developments said that in Tuesday’s meeting, the list of 66 Assembly seats, on which the party has not won or is weak and or had won occasionally, was to be discussed first. Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023: Congress To Hold Screening Committee in Delhi Today for Poll-bound State.

As per a source, on the same model as the BJP, the Congress also wants to finalise its candidates by first discussing the weakest seats. Madhya Pradesh has 230 Assembly seats. The ruling BJP has already announced the names of 39 candidates.

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