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`Congress won on its own'

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL, OCT. 25. The Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president, Subhash Yadav, today said it was for the first time that Congress workers had mobilised their own resources and campaigned for their party candidates in the recent by-elections for the Nohata and Balaghat Assembly seats.

The MPCC chief was addressing newsmen at the State Congress headquarters this afternoon. "Technically the Congress could win only the Balaghat seat in the by-elections but the ground reality is that it had also won the Nohata seat, where the BJP candidate was declared elected only because the Election Commission had chosen to ignore complaints of massive rigging and

booth capturing in that constituency," Mr. Yadav asserted.

The State Congress president said that even if fresh elections were ordered in Nohata today, the Congress party would romp home victorious and capture that seat by a margin of at least 15000 votes. Regarding elections for the local bodies in Madhya Pradesh, he said that the Congress party workers would be campaigning for these elections with the same zeal they had demonstrated at the time of the Nohata and Balaghat Assembly by-elections.

The Congress observers for the local bodies would be submitting their recommendations for allotment of party tickets by October 29, Mr. Yadav said. .

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