Madhya Pradesh bypolls a prestige battle for Scindia, Kamal Nath
The HinduAmid portraits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president J.P. Nadda and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the hoardings at the party’s Bhopal office, the absence of a popular face, whose 19 supporters are in the fray for the 28 bypolls after pulling down the Congress government in March, is glaring. People's court: On Madhya Pradesh by-elections Mr. Scindia, who led the Congress to victory in the Assembly elections in 2018, is now a BJP member but his stature as a new entrant and unyielding stiffness has meant that he is eclipsed by the party’s more committed, older leaders. However, the polls are more a prestige battle between Mr. Scindia, who left the Congress and is eyeing a Ministerial Berth at the Centre, and former Congress Chief Minister Kamal Nath. It is The non-fulfilment of election promises most prominently of waiving crop loans within 10 days of government is the major poll plank of the BJP, which is also pointing to Mr. Nath’s reported ignorance of farmers’ issues and ‘poor-performance’ as a Chief Minister.