Having failed to go for alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party ahead of the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress is now going ahead to woo tribal party Jai Adivasi Yuva Shakti (JAYS).
JAYS convenor Hiralal Alawa claims that his party has sought 40 seats from the Congress as part of the pre-poll alliance in the State, which has 230 Assembly constituencies.
He claimed that the Congress is in talks with him for a pre-poll alliance. “Our focus is 28 seats in Malwa-Nimar region of western MP that has 66 assembly constituencies. Of these 28 seats, 22 are reserved for tribals," he said, adding that out of these 22 seats, the Congress currently has MLAs in five assembly constituencies.
Alawa, who is a former assistant professor of AIIMS Delhi, says the JAYS eyes to field candidates in Alirajpur, Ratlam, Jhabua, Dhar, Khargone, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Dewas and Barwani districts as these places have