"They are all fused bulbs": BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya on Congress's list of candidates in Madhya Pradesh

"State Congress President Kamal Nath has released the names of 'fused bulbs'. I think the majority of them will lose the election. They all are fused bulbs. The party has ignored the people belonging to the backward classes and women," Vijayvargiya told ANI.

Congress released its list of 144 candidates for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections that are scheduled to be held on November 17. State Congress President Kamal Nath said that the party has fielded 19 female candidates.

"We are fully prepared in Madhya Pradesh. From the list we have released, 65 candidates are below the age of 50 and there are 19 female candidates. We have done what we said. They (BJP) have nothing left, they just can't say that they are losing the election," Kamal Nath said.

When asked about the resignation of the Vice President of the Congress Media Department Ajay Singh Yadav saying that fewer candidates from backward classes have been fielded by the party, the BJP leader said that Congress is not a party for the common people.

"Ajay Singh's statement proves that Congress has ignored the backward class people and women. The party do not respect the people belonging to backward classes, it is not a party for the common people. BJP is the people's party," Vijayvargiya said.

This comes after Vice President of Congress Media Department Ajay Singh Yadav resigned from his post on Sunday asserting that fewer candidates from backward classes have been fielded by the party.

Yadav wrote a letter to state Congress President Kamal Nath and said that more than 70 per cent of the voters are from the backward class in Tikamgarh district but the party announced the candidates of a particular caste from 3 assembly constituencies. This is an unfair decision.

"Under your leadership in Madhya Pradesh, it was always assured that this time the candidates belonging to the backward classes would be given their rights and privileges during the selection. In Tikamgarh district, there is more than 70 per cent of the voters from backward classes but people of a particular caste have been made candidates from 3 assembly constituencies. This is an unfair decision. The number of people from this particular caste is less than two per cent and all three had also lost the last election," the Vice President of the Congress Media Department said in his letter to Kamal Nath.

The Congress's list includes prominent names such as former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, Former Minister of Higher Education of Madhya Pradesh Jitu Patwari, Jaivardhan Singh, Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Vijayalakshmi Sadho and Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Lakshman Singh.

The counting of votes will take place on December 3.

Notably, the Kamal Nath government collapsed in March 2021 when 22 sitting Congress MLAs resigned under the leadership of Jyotiraditya Scindia and joined the BJP. (ANI)