No local CM face in MP, Chhattisgarh, ED actions to backfire on BJP: Cong

New Delhi, Nov 12: With three days left of campaigning for Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections, the Congress is hopeful that it will get a clear majority in both states as the BJP has no face except Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the misuse of central agencies will backfire.
Explaining the situation in Chhattisgarh, where the first phase of elections took place on November 7 for 20 Assembly seats, a senior Congress leader said the BJP is raising the issue of Mahadev app to target Congress and tarnish the image of the party leaders as they have no face in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. But they are forgetting that they themselves are accused of not doing any work in the Mahakal scam in Madhya Pradesh and are raising the name Mahadev in Chhattisgarh for their gains, the party leader said.
He explained that the Baghel government will get votes on the basis of work in the last five years in the mineral rich state.
“They won’t succeed. They don’t have a face there,” he said.
Commenting on the BJP’s strategy to project Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face in place of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and similarly in Chhattisgarh, the source said that the saffron party has nothing to show.
“In Chhattisgarh, the BJP has no face, like the case of Karnataka, where we had Siddaramaiah, who took on the Prime Minister. But in case of BJP there is no such face in Chhattisgarh. Similar is the situation in Madhya Pradesh, where all the posters and banners have the Prime Minister’s face instead of the sitting Chief Minister’s face,” he added.
He said that former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Raman Singh is also no longer a major force in the state. Thus BJP has gone faceless in Chhattisgarh, he added.
The party leader said that the Congress will form a government in Chhattisgarh as it will get a clear majority. He said, the BJP’s main issue is Mahadev (online books betting scam), while ours is the work in the last five years, he added.
The party leader also said that in Madhya Pradesh there is strong undercurrent for Congress and there are two reasons for the same.
“First the long 18 years rule of BJP, which has made people feel that the government is not doing anything for them and second is the backstabbing of Kamal Nath in 2020 after Congress won in the 2018 assembly elections,” he explained. (IANS)