Summary:
However, in the December 2018 state assembly election, Congress was able to make its presence felt in several BJP bastions. Otherwise, winnability is the only criteria.”However, there are sceptics in the party who believe that selecting candidates based on objective analysis has never been easy in the faction-ridden Congress party. There are quite a few seats, which the Congress has not won for years, including four major cities - Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior and Jabalpur. In Gwalior, Congress won five out of six assembly segments, in Bhopal three out of seven, in Jabalpur four out of eight and in Indore, the party bagged half the assembly seats. In 2014, the party had managed to win just two seats- Chhindwara and Guna, represented Kamal Nath and Jyotirditya Scindia, the two most prominent party leaders in MP..