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Madhya Pradesh
completes 52nd anniversary
Bhopal, Oct 31 : Marching ahead with a bulging population though with a
truncated size, Madhya Pradesh completes its 52nd anniversary after it was
formed during reorganisation of states on November 1, 1956.
With the merger of Mahakoshal, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal
states, Madhya Pradesh then divided into 43 districts came into existence with
261 lakh population spread out in a total of 1,71,000 square miles.
At that time, there were a total of 288 assembly segments, 36 Lok Sabha seats
and 16 Rajya Sabha seats.
After 44 years of its existence as the largest state in the country,
Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 2000 with 16
districts in the eastern part having about 20 million population.
Despite with a truncated size of 3,08,000 sq km, Madhya Pradesh still remains
the second biggest state in the country after Rajasthan. In 2001, its
population remained at 6,03,48,023, including 2,89,04,371 females, spread over
394 urban areas and 55,393 villages.
The state endowed with nature's bounty with sizeable mineral deposits and
forest wealth made rapid strides in various sectors like education, health,
industries, infrastructure and agriculture.
However, it still remains a backward state on many counts.
At present there are 230 assembly constituencies, 29 Lok Sabha seats and 11
Rajya Sabha seats.
Lone Muslim in first Cong list for MP assembly polls
Bhopal, October
31 (Pervez Bari): There is just one Muslim in the first list of 117 candidates
for the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections announced by the All
India Congress Committee, (AICC), at New Delhi on Friday and faxed to the
Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee here at Bhopal in the afternoon.
The lone Muslim Congress candidate is Arif Aqueel who is a sitting member from
Bhopal North constituency. He was earlier a minister in the Digvijay Singh
ministry. In the last general elections about half a dozen Muslim candidates
were given Congress tickets. There is still some hope as a list of 113
candidates have yet to be declared by the AICC.
The total seats in the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha is 230 which is earlier 320
before Chhattisgarh was carved out from it. The polling for the Vidhan Sabha
will be held on November 27.
The list includes several former ministers and senior leaders including the
Leader of Congress Opposition in the state Jamuna Devi and former deputy chief
minister Subhash Yadav
While Jamuna Devi has been re-nominated from Kukshi, Yadav will fight from
Kasrawad. Ajay Singh, son of Union Minister Arjun Singh who is also chairman
of the state campaign committee, has been re-nominated from Churhat. Former
assembly speaker Srinivas Tiwari is the party nominee from Sirmour. Hazarilal
Raghuvanshi, who is the deputy speaker, has been nominated from Seoni-Malwa.
Among former ministers who have been given ticket include Satyadev Katare,
Mahindra Bodh, Raghavendra Singh, Parvatlal Ahirwar and Ratnesh Soloman,
brother-in-law of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi.
Meanwhile, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh is not contesting the Madhya
Pradesh assembly elections.
This became clear with the AICC announcing the list of 117 candidates for the
assembly elections
Raghogarh, which is being represented by Digvijay Singh, is being given to his
close associate Mool Singh. Digvijay has created a record in the state for a
tenure of ten years as Chief Minister till 2003. (pervezbari@eth.net)
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