Congress eye is on 2013 election in Madhya Pradesh

BHOPAL: Congress is getting ready for 2013 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, last week the state Congress declared the list of its office-bearers to take the ruling BJP government head-on.

List was announced by the Congress in New Delhi. Congress has already lost two polls in 2003 and 2008, now it will be difficult to afforded to lose 2013 elections.

Manak Agarwal, the new media chairman of the State Congress, said that the new office-bearers were well equipped to throw the BJP out of power from Madhya Pradesh.

Agarwal said the party has already begun its programmes all over the state to expose the corruption and shortcomings in the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh.

The 2003 polls were lost by Congress after the end of 10 years of rule by Digvijay Singh while in 2008, the party lost when former union minister Suresh Pachouri was the State Congress president.

When the BJP won in 2008, it was the first time, the party won two successive assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh.

It is almost six month when Bhuria was made State Congress president, former union minister Arjun Singh’s son Ajay Singh was made the Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh assembly.