ABP News-CSDS survey: Congress way ahead of BJP in Madhya Pradesh

NEW DELHI: The Congress is performing rather well in Madhya Pradesh where it is ahead of the BJP by a comfortable margin of 15 per cent vote share, a survey conducted by ABP News and CSDS has found. According to the 'Mood of the Nation' survey, the Congress is likely to get 49 per cent vote share and the BJP may only secure 34 per cent of votes, if elections to the 230-member assembly were to be held today.

#देशकामूड - The Congress is performing rather well in Madhya Pradesh where it is ahead of the BJP by a comfortable margin currently both at the Lok Sabha and Assembly election levels: ABP News-CSDS Survey. A look at the voting intention below. LIVE: https://t.co/JQJlKZeiOk pic.twitter.com/3Dr4jlFbLe

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As the elections are nearing, the Congress recently appointed Kamal Nath as its state president, who hinted that the Congress would not have a chief ministerial face in the upcoming assembly elections. Jyotiraditya Scindia will be leading the party’s election campaign as its committee chief. Out of power in the state since the last 14 years, the Congress is planning to highlight the “unfulfilled” promises of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, whom the party has termed as a “Ghoshnaveer” (a man of hollow promises). To Watch Mood of The Nation survey Click Here However, the BJP claims Chouhan has always adopted a sensitive approach in formulating welfare schemes and that the people have trust in him. The term of the 230-member assembly is coming to an end in January 2019 and polls are due in the state later this year. In the last assembly elections, BJP emerged as the winner with 165 seats followed by the Congress and the BSP with 58 and 4 seats.