The Congress on Friday announced names of 15 candidates for the upcoming by-elections to 27 Assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh.

The party has fielded Ravindra Singh Tomar (Dimani), Satyprakash Shekharwar (Ambah, SC), Mevaram Jatav (Gohad, SC), Sunil Sharma (Gwalior), Suresh Raje (Dabra, SC), Phul Singh Baraiya (Bhander, SC), Pragilal Jatav (Karera), Kanhaiyalal Agrawal (Bamori), Asha Dohre (Ashok Nagar, SC), Vishwanath Singh Kunjam (Anuppur, ST), Madanlal Choudhary Ahirwar (Sanchi, SC), Vipin Wankhede (Agar, SC), Rajveer Singh Baghel (Hatpipalya), Ram Kishan Patel (Nepanagar, ST) and Premchand Guddu (Sanver, Sc), state Congress spokesman Narendra Saluja said.

This referred to a survey reportedly conducted by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the BJP to argue that the opposition party will win 22 out of 27 seats up for by-polls in the state.

The BJP which has to win a minimum of 9 of the 27 seats to continue with it’s government, has however called the Congress’s claim a “BUNDLE OF FALSEHOOD”.

This claim comes on the eve of the four-day joint by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Rajya Sabha member Jyotiraditya Scindia of the Gwalior Chambal region, wherein they will supervise foundation-laying processions for various developmental projects and works.

This all results with a series of tweets by the MP Congress holding local media reports on the survey to say that the people have decided to teach BJP a lesson. They have declared that Congress will win 22 seats according to RSS survey and this will be the win of the masses.

They have also said that the BJP has begun discovering excuses to deny tickets to Congress ex-MLA’s who switched over to the BJP through this survey.
The RSS has reportedly proposed that some of the ex-MLA’s should not be fielded to diffuse the negativity among public.

Meanwhile, during the series of meeting clasped on Wednesday, the national organising general secretary of BJP,B.L.Santosh has said that the ministers in charge of the 27 constituencies will be held personally accountable for the result on these seats and thus they should put in all efforts to assure their party wind.