Bhopal: With the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections less than four days away, both the ruling BJP and the Opposition Congress are exuding confidence that they will win them.
The ruling BJP is claiming that it will win the elections on the basis of the large number of development works carried out during its rule in the last five years while the Congress is highly optimistic about a win as it says that people of the state were fed up with the massive corruption during the BJP rule.
The state Congress President Suresh Pachouri told PTI that corruption was the single biggest issue for the Assembly elections as people from all walks of life were badly affected by it.
Pachouri said that under the BJP rule, corruption had become totally decentralized and it was practised by ministers, officers and down to the grassroot-level by BJP workers.
However, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan dismisses all this talk about corruption and insist that it will not be an issue during the polls.
Chouhan told PTI that the BJP had done a lot of development works in the state during its five-year rule and added that because of them the ruling party was confident that it will once again get the blessings of the people in the state and run at for the second term in succession.
In case, the BJP does manage to win these elections, it will be a record of sorts for it as earlier no non-Congress government has ever completed a five-year term in office in Madhya Pradesh and no one has got a second term in succession.
