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Modi reviews poll plans for MP, C'garh
The Morning Standard
|August 17, 2023
BJP's Central Election Committee mulls names of candidates for 27 out of 95 'weak' seats in MP
THE BJP's brainstorming session on electoral strategies and selection of candidatures for poll-bound Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh lasted hours on Wednesday. At the party's Central Election Committee (CEC), Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have emphasised on the need to win elections in all states, including Madhya Pradesh, on the basis of performance and people's trust his government has earned in the last nine years.
The CEC members minutely went through the plans with PM Modi, BJP national president JP Nadda, home minister and party's principal strategist Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and other members.
According to sources, Modi advocated for selection of candidates after considering personal and political records, level of people's connect and perception, earlier performances and non-controversial background.
This story is from the August 17, 2023 edition of The Morning Standard.
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