The Congress on Wednesday finalised its list of candidates for 194 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh and the same would be announced from October 25 onwards.
While talking to media persons here, party’s State in-charge secretary Sanjay Nirupam said said, “The Congress Central Election Committee has given a green signal to party candidates on 194 seats and the party will announce its list of candidates in a planned manner from October 25 onwards.”
He further informed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will address a number of poll rallies in the State before the elections. However, he did not provide details of their proposed visits to the Sate.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will address two rallies on Thursday at Rahatgarh in Sagar district and Indore, he added.
Taking a dig at BJP, Nirupam said it was unfortunate that the saffron party had only one leader (BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi) in its fold while Congress has a long list of such leaders to whom people wanted to listen. He said the party will corner the State BJP Government on issues like roads, power, corruption, malnutrition, poor law and order and condition of farmers.
The State lokayukta has registered cases against 13 Ministers in the State, but the Government-led by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had not given its permission for the trial of the cases, which meant, morally Chouhan too was involved with his Ministers on the issue, Nirupam alleged.