Congress chief ministerial face and PCC president Kamal Nath said he has faith in the people and that they will side with the truth. Expressing the hope that the people will prefer the Congress this time, Nath also alleged the BJP side was deploying money and liquor on the polling day..
«I have faith in the entire state that they will side with the truth.
I trust the public, the voters. I am not Shivraj Singh that I will say that we will win these many or that many seats.
Public will decide the number of seats...BJP has police, money and administration. They will have it for a few more hours now.
Yesterday, I received several phone calls, someone sent me a video that shows that liquor and money was being distributed,» Nath said after casting gis vote in his pocket borough Chhindwara.
For Nath, this election is also being seen as a personal battle, to avenge the toppling of his one-year plus government, that had assumed office after 2018 Assembly poll victory, by the BJP by making use of the defection from the Congress by Jyotiraditya Scindia who took away over 20 MLAs with him in 2020. For the 75 year old Nath, many feel, this could his last outing as the Congress' commander for the Assembly election in his home state, which he hopes to mak with a victory.
Nath and his comrade-in-arms Digvijaya Singh have been micromanaging this election for the Congress with both specifically focusing on the Gwalior-Chambal region with the aim of wresting the Scindia hometurf.
The Congress fightback in this election has been focusing on tapping the potential incumbency issues of the Shivraj Singh Chauhan government, and by hardselling a heavy bouquet of social welfare schemes.