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M.P. Cong. unit clears names for 70 seats

By Our Staff Correspondent

Ticket- seekers giving their bio-data to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, after the Madhya Pradesh Congress election committee meeting in Bhopal on Monday. Photo: A.M. Faruqui

BHOPAL SEPT. 22 .The Election Committee of the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Congress Party today concluded its third round of meetings with a consensus on "single names'' for almost 30 per cent of the Assembly constituencies in the State. For the remaining seats panels of two or more names have been cleared for final scrutiny.

This was disclosed by the Madhya Pradesh Congress chief, Radhakishan Malviya, at a press conference which he addressed along with the AICC secretary, Dalji Singh, and media in charge of MPCC, Suresh Pachouri.

Mr. Malviya told newsmen that the election committee had done a thorough job going through the recommendations of the block and district Congress committees. The names recommended by the election committee members were also considered at the screening stage, he added.

The recommendations for allotment of tickets for the coming Assembly elections would soon be sent to the AICC, Mr. Malviya said and added that AICC's Steering Committee, scheduled to meet in Delhi on October 30, would consider these recommendations and the final sifting process would follow at the Central Election Committee level after October 5. He said that work relating to ticket distribution at the State level had been completed. Asked why the panels of names had not been cleared for a few constituencies, he cited the example of the Kher-Lanji constituency where the Congress had a poll alliance with the Republican Party of India in the last election. To another query regarding "single names'' that have been cleared for over 70 constituencies, he said that most of these were Ministers or sitting MLAs.

To a pointed query, the AICC secretary said that unlike at the time of the 1998 Assembly elections, the AICC did not spell out any strict criteria for selection of candidates this time. However, he added, there was certainly emphasis on "good character and image''. About role of the AICC observers who have been touring the State in the recent past, Mr. Singh said that they were involved in motivating the party workers. Moreover, he said, their reports would be used by the Steering Committee when it meets in Delhi later this month.

Mr. Singh told newsmen that the AICC has not yet considered any proposal for entering into any sort of electoral alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party for the coming State Assembly elections.

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