Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that projecting Chief Ministerial candidate by Congress in the upcoming assembly elections would be a boon for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
While talking to ‘The Pioneer, Chouhan said that it would be better if Congress comes out with a face in the next assembly elections and that too, Congress parliamentarian Jyotiraditya Scindia would be a decision in faovur of the BJP.
He further said that the BJP is pained it could not win the just held bypolls to two Assembly seats but maintained his party fought well and lost narrowly.
The opposition Congress retained the two Assembly seats - Kolaras (Shivpuri district) and Mungaoli (Ashoknagar district) - where bypolls were held on February 24, but with a reduced margin.
He claimed that the defeat with a margin of around 2,100 votes in Mungaoli and 8,000 votes in Kolaras is not a defeat. “We fought to win but a bit was left in our effort,” he added.
“All had thought winning the two seats was tough (for the BJP). The Congress had won Kolaras by a margin of around 25,000 votes in 2013.
We narrowed this gap to around 8,000 votes in the bypolls,” the Chief Minister said, adding that the Congress had won Mungaoli by 22,000 votes in 2013. This time the BJP lost to the Congress by around 2,100 votes.
The CM expressed confidence that his party would win the Assembly polls, slated for later this year, with a comfortable majority.