“Formally started democratic process…”: Congress holds screening committee meeting for poll-bound Madhya Pradesh

New Delhi [India], September 13 : Congress MP and AICC in-charge of Madhya Pradesh Randeep Surjewala held a meeting of the Screening Committee in Delhi on Tuesday ahead of the State Assembly elections to be held later this year.
After the meeting, Surjewala said that the Congress party has formally 'started the democratic process'.
"Today we formally started the democratic process and many types of discussions took place...This is a continuous process. This will not end in a day or two,” Surjewala told reporters after the meeting.
On announcing candidates, Surjewala said that the Central Election Committee will take the final decision.
“On one hand, there are people who lie and have been looting people of Madhya Pradesh for the last 18 years and on the other hand is the 'Vachan' by our party and party leader Kamal Nath... After the screening committee, this matter will go to the Central Election Committee and the Central Election Committee will take the final decision,” he said.
Discussion was held on 100 seats but no name has been finalised yet, said Madhya Pradesh PCC Chief Kamal Nath to reporters after the meeting.
"We held discussions on 100 seats. We will discuss it again tomorrow. No name has been finalised yet,” Kamal Nath said.
Screening Committee Chairman of MP Bhawar Jitendra Singh confirmed there will be a meeting again tomorrow of the committee.
“Discussion was held on seats. There will be a meeting tomorrow also. No seat has been finalised yet,” Singh told reporters in Delhi.
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and other senior leaders of the state Congress unit along with other members of the Screening Committee and co-Incharges of AICC were also present at the meeting.
With just two and half months to go for the polls, Congress has stepped up its electoral preparedness in the state.
The grand old party has also announced a slew of promises ahead of the election in the state. The party is seeking to return to power in the state.
The Madhya Pradesh assembly polls are scheduled to be held later this year.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its first list of Candidates for the poll-bound state last month.
Madhya Pradesh is among the five states where assembly elections are to be held later this year to elect 230 members of the state. MP is the only state where the BJP is holding on to power.
In the 2018 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Congress emerged as the single largest party with 114 seats and BJP got 109 seats.
However, in 2020, the Congress government lost the majority followed by the resignations of some MLAs. After this, the BJP formed the government in the state and Shivraj Singh Chouhan was reinstated as the Chief Minister.