Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on September 28 said a "race" was going on among senior BJP leaders from Madhya Pradesh to avoid contesting the coming Assembly elections.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has declared 79 candidates for the elections till now, including Union Ministers Narendra Tomar, Prahlad Patel and party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya.
“The BJP has run short of candidates in MP and its big leaders are in a race to avoid being in the fray. While fleeing from the battlefield they are asking each other to contest the polls,” said Mr. Surjewala, the Congress's general secretary in charge of the State where polls are due by the year-end.
