Madhya Pradesh  

Just days after Maharashtra minister stated that crabs were the reason behind the Tiware dam breach, now here is a comment from a Madhya Pradesh minister who said that 'flying bats' were the reason behind faulty power supply in Bhopal

While the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka is teetering after resignations of several MLAs, two- thirds of Congress MLAs have joined the BJP in Goa. In Madhya Pradesh, the Nath-led Congress government is holding onto a wafer-thin majority.

Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath has categorically told the MLAs of his party and those from the BSP, SP and independents, who are supporting his government, not to leave the state capital while the monsoon session of the assembly is underway

Leader of opposition Gopal Bhargava also urged Speaker NP Prajapati to allow a discussion on July 11. The Speaker, however, turned down the demand and invited BJP legislators to his chamber to discuss the issue.

Rahul Gandhi is appearing in the defamation case of derogatory comments made against Amit Shah during a Lok Sabha election rally  in Madhya Pradesh in April, calling him a "murder accused"
 

A video of the purported incident showed several villagers carrying sticks and forcing the alleged cattle-transporters to do sit-ups holding their ears amid cries of "gau mata ki jai"

Indore BJP MLA from Indore, Akash Vijayvargiya is back in the news, this time to say that he would not interfere in the demolition drive. Vijayvargiya was in the news earlier for assaulting a civic official who had arrived at the spot for demolition drive
 

Bulbul and Kuldeep, who had moved out of the village after their inter-caste wedding, returned to the victim's marital home on Saturday. Bubul’s 17-year-old brother shot her in the head at Kuldeep's home.

The weather forecasting agency has also predicted that some isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha will be hit by a dust storm. 

Congress candidate was Jyotiraditya Scindia son of Madhavrao Scindia who was standing from the Guna seat was defeated by ex-Congress supporter Krishna Pal Singh Yadav by 1.25 lakh votes. 

Madhya Pradesh Congress leader Ratan Singh was reportedly gathering information on trends at the counting centre, when he started complaining of heart attack and then suddenly collapsed in the booth.

It was a rare scene of mutual admiration punctuated with laughter and sharing of pooris given the kind of campaigning Bhopal has witnessed recently

Aside from the commonsense logic, the EVM bashing has been going on for long. Rahul Gandhi's backers say that he did point that he had reservations with the EVMs even when the Congress won in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan December last

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said, “Madhya Pradesh chief minister Bhupesh Baghelji, Chhattisgarh chief minister Hukum Singh Karadaji…”

The seats going to the polls are 13 each in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, nine in West Bengal, eight each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and one in Chandigarh