A miffed Yadav had 'thanked' the Congress for not making his party's lone MLA in Madhya Pradesh a minister, saying it has made the 'road ahead clear for his party'.
Most of the exit polls have given the Congress an edge in four states, and predicted loss for it in Mizoram, the last bastion of the grand old party in the Northeast.
Stakes are high for the BJP as the Congress is going all out to wrest power from the saffron party, which has been ruling the state for 15 years.
Stakes are high for the BJP as the Congress is going all out to wrest power from the saffron party, which has been ruling the state for 15 years.
The election is also a major battle between former state Congress chief Arun Yadav and the incumbent Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as they are set for a face-off with each other in Budhni on Wednesday.
The 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly will go to the polls in a single phase on November 28, with the results out on December 11.
Congress’s first list for the state polls was seen by experts as a balancing act by party chief Rahul Gandhi to take all sections on board.
There are 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh, where the saffron party has been in power since 2003 and Shivraj Singh Chauhan has been the chief minister from November 2005.
Gandhi said that the UPA government's deal for 126 Rafale fighter jets with French government was changed by Modi to favour his industrialist friend.
Madhya Pradesh will vote on November 28 in a single phase to elect a new Assembly.
