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Sonia to go by Digvijay`s assessment in MP
New Delhi, Nov 15: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today remained non-committal on the issue of snap polls to the Lok Sabha and said that she will go by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh`s assessment that the party would win in the state.
New Delhi, Nov 15: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today remained non-committal on the issue of snap polls to the Lok Sabha and said that she will go by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh`s assessment that the party would win in the state.
"We will tell you after the fifth of December (after the counting of votes in the coming assembly elections)," she told reporters at an `Iftar` hosted by her in the party office
here.
She was asked whether Congress would demand snap polls to the Lok Sabha if her party emerged victorious in all the four major states where elections are being held on December 1.
To a question about her party`s prospects in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi, Gandhi first said "all four" and added even the polls surveys had shown that it was winning in Delhi and Rajasthan. As regards Madhya Pradesh, she said the Chief Minister "says we are winning and will go by that (assessment)."
Asked if an alliance with the BSP was final, she said "nothing is final in politics".
Bureau Report
She was asked whether Congress would demand snap polls to the Lok Sabha if her party emerged victorious in all the four major states where elections are being held on December 1.
To a question about her party`s prospects in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi, Gandhi first said "all four" and added even the polls surveys had shown that it was winning in Delhi and Rajasthan. As regards Madhya Pradesh, she said the Chief Minister "says we are winning and will go by that (assessment)."
Asked if an alliance with the BSP was final, she said "nothing is final in politics".
Bureau Report