State's BJP govt felt last person on ground was not getting benefits of govt's schemes. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan Monday met around 450 retired govt employees, of whom 300 volunteered.
Backward Classes Welfare Commission in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh is surveying 10,000 families from 93 backward classes to assess their social, economic & educational status.
With assembly elections scheduled in MP later this year, Congress plans to use corruption allegations are one of its major poll planks, just like it did in Karnataka, it is learnt.
The BJP rout in Karnataka earlier this month has set alarm bells ringing in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh where the Shivraj Singh Chouhan govt is 'battling anti-incumbency & fatigue factor'.
BJP has often grabbed power by engineering defections from other parties, but side-effects include erosion of ideology, weakening morale, and corruption, party sources say.
Brahmin outreach seen as counter to Congress's priest cell, 'Dharm Samvad'. Earlier this month, MP CM also announced 4 separate boards for welfare of different OBC communities.
A 14-member BJP delegation has advised old-timers in poll-bound MP to ‘sacrifice’ their own political ambitions for the party’s victory, but not all seem to be convinced.
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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