Rahul Gandhi approves 32-member committee for Madhya Pradesh elections

The Congress is gearing up for the Madhya Pradesh elections and seeks to oust the ruling BJP from power.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday approved a 32-member election committee for the party's Madhya Pradesh unit, ahead of the state assembly polls due later this year.

The panel has top Congress leaders Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Digvijaya Singh as members.

Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Ajay Singh "Rahul", party MPs Kantilal Bhuria, Vivek Tankha and Rajmani Patel are also part of the committee, AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot said.

The Congress is gearing up for the Madhya Pradesh elections and seeks to oust the ruling BJP from power. The saffron party has been in power in the state for the last 15 years.

The working presidents of the Congress's Madhya Pradesh unit Ram Niwas Rawat, Bala Bachhan, Surendra Choudhary and Jeetu Patwari, besides presidents of state units of the Mahila Congress, the Youth Congress, the NSUI and the Seva Dal have also been included in the panel, Gehlot said.

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The chairmen of the SC, OBC, minority and Kisan Congress have also part of the committee.

State Congress leaders Suresh Pachauri, Arun Yadav, Inderjit Patel, Satyavrat Chaturvedi, Arif Aqeel, Govind Singh, Sunderlal Tiwari, Meenakshi Natrajan, Vijay Laxmi Sadho and Mahendra Joshi, are also part of the party poll committee, he said.

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After EVM row, Cong says BJP has new plan for rigging Madhya Pradesh polls

The Election Commission has formed four teams to look into the allegation of electoral fraud in Madhya Pradesh levelled by the Congress against BJP. Find all your key questions answered here.

After levelling allegations of tampered electronic voting machines across polls in the country, the Congress has made another shocking accusation regarding electoral fraud. The Grand Old Party has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of trying to influence the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly election 2018  by enrolling close to 6 million (60 lakh) fake voters in the state's voters list.

Responding to the allegations, the Election Commission of India (EC) has ordered a probe into the matter. EC teams will reach the state, which is slated to go to polls later this year, on Monday to look into allegation levelled by Congress.



Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath has alleged that these names "have been deliberately registered" in the voter rolls, adding that his party's allegations were not over "administrative negligence" but about "administrative misuse" by the BJP. Kamal Nath on Sunday led a Congress delegation to meet EC officials over the allegations.



What exactly is the Congress accusing the BJP of?


Kamal Nath said that the Congress has "given proof to the EC" that the voters' list of Madhya Pradesh is "fraudulent". The state party chief has also said that the Congress has carried out its "own enquiry in 100 constituencies".


According to Nath, the Congress has found cases of one voter being enlisted in different constituencies "with the same name, address and father's name". According to the Congress leader, "this cannot be any mistake".

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