‘Samajwadi Party will contest Madhya Pradesh elections’: Akhilesh Yadav
Lok Sabha elections. "...2/3rd of the population is going to defeat BJP. I hope that the people of the country will give BJP a massive defeat...I am receiving inputs from all corners of the country that the BJP will be wiped out...," SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said ahead of the Opposition meeting.
In Madhya Pradesh, Congress is the main contender against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the 2018 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Congress emerged as the single largest party with 114 seats and BJP got 109 seats. However, in 2020, the Congress government lost the majority followed by the resignations of some MLAs.
After this, BJP formed the government in the state and Shivraj Singh Chouhan was reinstated as the Chief Minister. On May 29, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal after attending a meeting to review the preparations for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh elections said that the party will resoundingly win 150 seats in the next state assembly elections. However, Jyotiraditya Scindia, one of the tallest leaders in the state, engineered a coup and joined the BJP camp thereby toppling the Kamal Nath-led state government and bringing Shivraj Singh Chouhan to power.
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