Kamal Nath convenes meeting of Congress candidates to review party's poll debacle

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress president convened a meeting of party candidates in the recently held assembly polls in the state here on Tuesday to analyse the debacle of the party in the elections.

Congress fared poorly in the polls by securing 66 out of 230 seats.

BJP retained power in the state by winning 166 seats.

All the newly elected MLAs of the party and also the candidates who lost the polls have been asked to attend the meeting, Congress spokesman said on Monday.

AICC general secretary in-charge of election in Madhya Pradesh Randeep Surjewala is also scheduled to attend the meeting.

Meanwhile, Mr Nath on Tuesday said that he is not going to shift out of Madhya Pradesh politics in the wake of drubbing of Congress in the polls.

“After my government fell in March 2020, I had said that I would stay in MP. Now also, I am not going to move out of MP (politics)”, Mr Nath who greeted chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for the victory of BJP in the polls, told reporters here.

Meanwhile, the race for the post of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader has begun with some party heavyweights mounting pressure on the Congress leadership to choose a young leader in the post.

The CLP leader Dr Govind Singh has lost the elections in Lahar assembly constituency.