The BJP faces a challenging election in Madhya Pradesh, which goes to
polls on November 28.
In the largely bipolar polity of the state, the
BJP has been in power for three consecutive terms now, after ending the
10-year rule of the Congress in 2003
While his government has been hit by a series of protests, including
by Dalit organisations over a Supreme Court order on the Scheduled Caste
and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and later by upper
castes/OBCs over changes made to the Act to get around that order, Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will lead the BJP campaign.
The Congress has not announced any CM candidate, though it has made
it clear that the choice would be between PCC chief Kamal Nath and
campaign committee chief Jyotiraditya Scindia, should it make the grade
on December 11.
It’s been a tough balancing act for the faction-ridden party, though
Nath had last year said that he would back Scindia as the CM face
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