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JITU ON THE BACK FOOT
India Today
|December 02, 2024
On December 16, 2023, the Congress had announced Jitendra 'Jitu' Patwari as their new Madhya Pradesh state president, signaling a generational change as he replaced veteran Kamal Nath.
Patwari took over just after the somewhat humiliating defeat in the assembly poll, where the party won just 66 out of 230 seats—a near-halving of its 2018 tally of 114, that too in a poll many pundits believed the Congress should have won. Almost a year into office, has Patwari managed to deliver? Well, it hasn't been a smooth ride.
This story is from the December 02, 2024 edition of India Today.
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