Madhya Pradesh

Assembly Elections 2023: Will BJP decision to not project CM faces help or hurt?

Assembly Elections 2023: Past surveys and vote share data from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh indicate that a CM face has helped BJP only when the leader’s personal popularity is of a higher order than the party’s vote share. A pre-poll survey of the current elections suggest Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh and Vasundhara Raje are trailing their party in popularity, suggesting they aren’t net votecatchers any more

Madhya Pradesh polls: Congress banks on former dacoit to woo Gwalior-Chambal voters

Malkhan Singh, who had surrendered in 1982, is said to wield considerable clout among the Parihar community, which has voters across the Gwalior-Chambal region.

MP Elections 2023: For those looking to vote caste, BJP-Congress weave near similar tapestries

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: Their politics may be hugely divergent, but both BJP and Congress are no different when it comes to caste arithmetic and outreach to various caste groups

Madhya Pradesh Foundation Day: PM Modi says state achieving new heights of development

Madhya Pradesh state was formed on November 1, 1956 following the reorganisation of states.

Assembly Elections 2023: BJP dares Congress to bat on its Ram Mandir poll pitch

Assembly Elections 2023: Union home minister Amit Shah has sent out a loud declaration of intent by raising the Ram Mandir inauguration at Kamal Nath’s Chhindwara. Apart from political rhetoric from PM Modi and HM Shah, the activity at the grassroots – mobilising people in batches of 25 from each village to visit Ayodhya – is a sure sign of how the discourse around the temple will play out at every tier of society

Assembly Elections 2023: Congress relies on surveys to curb internal tussles over ticket distribution

Assembly Elections 2023: While factions retain their sway over the Congress at the state and district levels, the institutionalising of surveys to identify candidates with the greatest winnability has introduced a new dynamic in the bargaining between the high command and regional satraps. The coming elections will reveal the efficacy of the process

Loan waivers to cash transfers, BJP & Cong dangle agri sops as MP heads into elections

Over 75 percent of the state’s farmers are marginal farmers with less than two hectares of land, and about 15 percent are small farmers with less than four hectares. With 72.4 percent of the state’s population involved in farming, parties are going all out to dole out sops

MP Elections 2023: Digvijaya Singh, the bearer of Kamal Nath’s ‘power of attorney for taking abuses’

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: Between 2003 and 2017, Digivijaya Singh was blamed for Congress’s decline in the state. But Kamal Nath taking the reins of the MP Congress in 2017 coincided with a political revival for Digvijaya. Since then, their near total control over the party organisation has had both its good and bad sides

Madhya Pradesh assembly polls: Digvijaya Singh denies 'differences' with Kamal Nath

Polling for the 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh will be held in a single phase on November 17 and votes will be counted on December 3.

Madhya Pradesh assembly polls: Amit Shah to address public meeting in Ujjain today

Shah is on a three-day visit to the state from Saturday. On Sunday, after garlanding the statue of Raja Bhoj in Bhopal, Shah will head to Khajuraho to take part in a meeting of the Sagar division of the BJP, party sources said.

Madhya Pradesh Polls 2023: If 2018 repeats, BJP and Congress are fighting a six-in-one election

Madhya Pradesh Polls 2023: Madhya Pradesh has six geographical regions – Baghelkhand, Bhopal, Chambal, Mahakaushal, Malwa and Nimar – each having different dynamics in terms of issues, caste break-up, popular demands, and party leadership. Each region voted differently in the closely fought 2018 polls, a scenario that opinion polls indicate will repeat this time too

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Polls 2023: Kamal Nath files nomination, goes all out to retain his bastion Chhindwara

Nath, who has maintained his strong hold in the constituency for nearly four decades, reposes his faith in Chhindwara residents. The Congress state chief has been showcasing his development model in his rallies to woo voters.

3 Union ministers and 4 Lok Sabha members in fray: Will BJP's big guns fire in Madhya Pradesh polls?

According to some political analysts, the Bharatiya Janata Party's move looks "high on optics but low on substance" and an attempt by the ruling party to maximise its gains by banking on stalwarts who have wide appeal in certain regions of the state.

Assembly elections: Newton actor Rajkummar Rao appointed Election Commission's national icon

Earlier personalities such as Pankaj Tripathi, Aamir Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, and MC Mary Kom were appointed national icons by the poll body.

MP Elections 2023: It’s a close contest because Congress is weak in too many seats

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: There are 74 seats in Madhya Pradesh that Congress hasn’t won in the last three assembly elections, while the corresponding number of BJP is only 11. The weak organisation in these 74 seats burdens Congress with having to win the remaining 156 seats at an unrealistically high strike rate

Women electorate in focus as parties step up outreach in key state polls

With this bloc having emerged as crucial voter segment, the BJP and Congress in particular have pulled out all stops to bring them into their fold

MP Assembly polls: Both Congress and BJP witness protests from those denied tickets

Assembly polls will be held in MP on November 17, while counting of votes will take place on December 3.

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: Scindia earns trust of top BJP leadership but he is on slippery ground

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: The BJP high command is betting big on Jyotiraditya Scindia in the Gwalior-Chambal region. But he faces a tough task repeating 2018 when his faction helped Congress win 28 of the 34 seats in the region. Congress is also running a tactical campaign in his pocket borough by not even mentioning his 2020 “betrayal”

Assembly Elections 2023: For Congress, a test of its OBC strategy before Lok Sabha polls

Assembly Elections 2023: Congress’s outreach to OBCs and its promise to carry out a nationwide caste count and remove the 50 percent cap on reservations for SCs/STs and backward classes will first be tested in the assembly polls before the Lok Sabha elections next year. But winning back the OBC vote from BJP won’t be easy

MP Elections 2023: Congress, BJP camps face protests over ticket distribution

The BJP has so far declared candidates for 228 out of the total 230 seats, while the Congress has declared names of 229 candidates for the assembly elections scheduled for November 17.

In Charts | How Shivraj Singh Chouhan was marred by inflation, slowed growth, but scored in employment

A graphical snapshot of Madhya Pradesh, which has more than 20 percent of the population living under multidimensional poverty

Assembly Elections 2023: Why the battle in MP and Rajasthan looks close, but not in Chhattisgarh

Assembly Elections 2023: In MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the sitting chief ministers are seen as steady hands. But Shivraj Singh Chouhan faces the burden of a long anti-incumbency and Ashok Gehlot’s fate lies somewhere between the Rajasthan trend of alternating governments and BJP’s disjointed campaigning, while Bhupesh Baghel benefits from a leaderless opposition

Assembly elections 2023: BJP likely to finalise candidates for Telangana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh

The core BJP group of Telangana arrived at Nadda's residence on October 20 to chalk out strategies for the upcoming elections

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: A primer on the state’s politics and the dynamics currently at play

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: India’s second biggest state by area (and fifth largest by population) is witnessing a keen contest between BJP and Congress. BJP is at a disadvantage, having to account for the years it has been in office. But Congress has a narrower social base and a weaker organisation, making it more difficult for the party to bat on the front foot