The lone Congress veteran who holds sway in MP

Madhya Pradesh had 43 local body elections recently. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)won 25, the Congress 15 and three went to Independents. But of the 15 Congress seats, nine came from the Mahakoshal and Chhindwara belt, where party veteran Kamal Nath holds sway. The BJP won five seats from this area. The two Independents who won owe their allegiance to Nath. In the Nimar Vindhya and Betul region, where MP Congress chief Arun Yadav has a presence, the Congress won only two of the 16 seats. Another Congress stalwart, Jyotiraditya Scindia, could not manage a single seat for the party from his bastion, the Chambal region; the BJP bagged both the seats that went to the polls. As for former state Congress chief Kanti Lal Bhuria the party won only three of the eight seats from his area.