People have clearly accepted BJP: Min

BJP forms 26-member panel for Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has constituted a 26-member election management committee for the State Assembly polls due later this year.

Five invited members are also included in the committee, the announcement of which was made on Saturday night. The committee, headed by its convener and Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar, includes Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP state president VD Sharma, a party spokesperson said.

Other members include Union

ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Prahlad Singh Patel, and four MP cabinet ministers – Narottam Mishra, Bhupendra Singh, Tulsi Silawat and Govind Singh.

Five invited members of the committee are – BJP national joint general secretary (organisation) Shivprakash, Union minister Bhupender Yadav, who is the party’s election incharge of Madhya Pradesh, Union minister and election joint in-charge Ashwini Vaishnaw, besides party’s general secretary Muralidhar Rao and state general secretary (organisation) Hitanand, the spokesperson said.

INDORE: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said the people of Madhya Pradesh have clearly accepted the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The polls in Madhya Pradesh are due in November. The BJP has made Vaishnaw the joint-incharge for the polls. “There is enthusiasm among BJP workers for Home Minister Amit Shah’s Indore visit. The public has very clearly accepted the BJP,” Vaishnaw said. Shah is set to participate in the BJP’s ‘Vijay Sankalp Sammelan’ in Indore on Sunday.