Bhopal

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1.40 crore voters are youth in MP

Bhopal: Youths constitute maximum number of the total 4.65 crore voters in Madhya Pradesh with 23.50 lakh voters are between 18 and 19 years of age and 1.40 crore voters between 20 and 29 years, 1.15 crore between 30 and 39 years. Similarly, there are 85.11 lakh voters between 40 and 49 years of age, 51.45 lakh voters between 50 and 59 years and 30.49 lakh voters between 60 and 69 years of age. There are over 19.46 lakh elderly voters also in Madhya Pradesh. Of these, 14.95 lakh voters are between 70 and 79 years and 4 lakh 91 thousand 45 voters above 80 years of age.

Sushma to visit State tomorrow

Bhopal: leader of Opposition in the lok Sabha and Vidisha MP Sushma Swaraj would arrive here on a three-day State visit from Thursday. Sources close to the leader informed that the senior BJP leader’s visit is to make sure that her supporters get party tickets for November 25, Assembly election of the State. Sources said that Swaraj would play important role in the finalisation of the party tickets especially from the Assembly constituencies that comes under her parliamentary constituency besides she would also press for her supporter’s ticket on some seats in Bhopal and Indore. Sources does not rule out the possibility that after Swaraj’s visit the lists finalised by the trio of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, State president Narendra Singh Tomar and organisational general secretary Arvind Menon would undergo major changes as names of her supporters that have been dropped from the lists could be included on her demand.