BJP goes all in to retain power in Madhya Pradesh amid spirited challenge from Congress

New Delhi, Sep 26 (PTI) The BJP has thrown open the leadership in Madhya Pradesh and deployed its big guns, several of whom have never contested assembly polls, from the state to deliver the goods for the party in the elections where it is facing a keen challenge from the Congress.

Despite the sense that the BJP will be fielding a few of its MPs in the assembly polls in several states, the extent of their deployment has taken even many within the party by surprise, with three Union ministers and four other MPs being named as candidates in the second list of nominees for 39 seats.

Two of the ministers, Narendra Singh Tomar and Faggan Singh Kulaste, will be contesting from seats that were won by the Congress in 2018, while three of the four other Lok Sabha MPs will also fight in constituencies where the main opposition party had emerged victorious in the last assembly polls.