The Congress party in Madhya Pradesh has now switched to organisational restructuring by announcing Youth Congress polls on Saturday. The membership campaign had started from Feb 27 and commenced on March 3, 2020. However, the process of org polls was left unfinished as the Kamal Nath government had lost power in March third week amid a prolonged political turmoil. Meanwhile, the filing of nominations will now take place on Nov 24-25 and scrutiny of nominations and presentation of objections and claims will take place on Nov 27. The date for polling and announcement of results will be announced shortly, a communique from the state election officer Maqsood Mirza said on Saturday. The organisational polls for Youth Congress and National Student Union of India are long pending in MP Congress. However, there is also a buzz that party high command posts the bypoll debacle had asked the Kamal Nath to quit one of the posts including MPCC chief and Leader of Opposition in assembly. Leaders including Bala Bachchan, Vijaylaxmi Sadho, NP Prajapati and others are in the hunt for the post of Leader of Opposition in assembly. Besides, the party is also planning to depute two contentious yet powerful youth leaders from the state unit to elsewhere in other states so as to reduce friction among the state unit officebearers. Large numbers of newly appointed PCC office-bearers were removed after the grand old party lost to BJP with heavy margin in bypolls. Besides Youth Congress, the NSUI and Women Congress are also expected to see an organisational rejig shortly.

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