Kamal Nath on the ruling party’s second list of candidates for the MP elections: “BJP Has Played Last Bet of ‘False’ Hope”

According to state Congress head Kamal Nath, the BJP has admitted defeat in MP and placed its “last bet of false hope” with the release of its second list of 39 candidates for the forthcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The BJP has nominated seven members of the Lok Sabha in the second list released on Monday night, including Union ministers Faggan Singh Kulaste, Prahlad Singh Patel, and Narendra Singh Tomar. Kailash Vijayvargiya, the BJP’s general secretary, was also a candidate. Out of the 230 seats in MP, the BJP has so far announced candidates for 78 of them, including its first list of 39 names that was issued in August.

By year’s end, the state elections are scheduled. The polling timetable has not yet been made public by the Election Commission. Nath said that the BJP had placed its “last bet of false hope” in MP in a post on X late Monday night.

According to Nath, the BJP’s candidates list, which asserts that it has millions of party members, puts a stamp on the party’s internal defeat and disproves the claims of progress made during the party’s eighteen and a half years in power and more than 15 years under Shivraj’s (Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan) rule. The Congressman said that the “white lie” about Madhya Pradesh’s progress had been exposed for what it was: false assertions. In addition to the three Union ministers, the BJP has also nominated four members of the Lok Sabha: Rakesh Singh, Riti Pathak, Ganesh Singh, and Udaypratap Singh.

The BJP gained 109 seats in the 2018 elections, while the Congress took home 114. When MLAs loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia rebelled, the Congress created a cabinet under Kamal Nath, but it fell in March 2020, allowing Shivraj Singh Chouhan to take over as chief minister once again. during byelections brought on by lawmakers switching allegiances during the uprising, the BJP currently has 126 MLAs in the 230-member House, compared to the Congress’ 96 representatives.