The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appears to be inching to a comfortable victory across the 230 seats in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections. This is in keeping with exit polls that predicted the party’s win in the State for a fifth time. Incumbent Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on December 3, in response to the results, said they have properly implemented welfare schemes of the “double engine” government (of BJP at the Centre and in the State).
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In particular, Mr. Chouhan accredited schemes such as the ‘Ladli Behna’ and ‘Ladli Laxmi’ with having “touched people’s hearts in Madhya Pradesh”. BJP’s election manifesto, titled Sankalp Patra, largely addressed gender, agriculture and education concerns shadowing the State’s progress. Across most social indicators, there has been no notable improvement in the last few years, an analysis by The Hindu’s data team showed.
