Guna (Madhya Pradesh):The Congress has shifted its councillors in Madhya Pradesh's Raghogarh, party veteran Digvijaya Singh's home turf, to an undisclosed location amid the fear of poaching ahead of elections to the post of local municipal council chairman. In the recently-held local body polls to the 24-member Raghogarh Municipal Council (RMC) in Guna district, the Congress won councillor's posts in 16 wards, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged eight seats.
The date for the election to the post of RMC chairman is yet to be announced. "The party has kept most of its councillors incommunicado and away from mobile phones, not because of any fear, but on the basis of past experiences," Guna District Congress Committee (DCC) president Hari Vijayvargiya said without disclosing the location of the councillors.
He said that the party is also on alert after poaching was witnessed during the district panchayat elections held earlier in Bhopal, and the recent statement of Minister for Panchayat Mahendra Singh Sisodia. Addressing a rally during the recently-held Raghogarh civic polls, Sisodia had asked Congress workers to join the BJP "or else Mama's (chief minister's) bulldozer is ready". He also expressed confidence that the ruling party in the state would win the next elections.