Union minister and chairman of the Congress campaign committee for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday emerged as a down-to-earth leader when he said that he has not used a beacon light on his car even for a single day and said, “The first thing we (leaders) should give up are these red lights and sirens on our cars since they only distance us from the people.”

Ruling BJP has been galvanised by the massive public support to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Jan Ashirvad Yatra and the party is confident of winning the 2013 Assembly election for the third time in a row in Madhya Pradesh, said state BJP president Narendra Singh Tomar at a press conference at the end of a marathon session of BJP workers here on Tuesday evening.

The scion of the ruling family of Rewa, Pushpraj Singh, who was a state minister in a previous Congress government and had unsuccessfully contested the 2009 parliamentary election from Rewa on a Samajwadi Party ticket, is likely to return to the Congress fold within the next few days.

A working women’s hostel even in the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited township in Bhopal is not safe for the inmates and this was starkly exposed during the intervening night of September 7 and 8 when an intruder broke the window grill, entered a room and violently attacked a girl, who was seriously injured and had to be admitted in ICU.

There is a constitutional dilemma in Madhya Pradesh as more than three weeks have passed since the state Assembly Speaker abruptly adjourned the Monsoon Session sine die but the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Ajay Singh is still not sure whether or not the governor has prorogued the session.

A Jodhpur police team arrived in Indore and by 8.30 pm on Saturday went to question rape accused Asaram Bapu at his ashram there, where he went into hiding on arrival from Bhopal Friday night.

High voltage drama continued to revolve around the controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who reached Raja Bhoj airport here on Friday evening to leave for Delhi but returned to his ashram as h

The Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) examination conducted by Barkatullah University in the state capital has come under cloud and the university’s credibility is at rock bottom with the unearthing of a fake examination scam and the arrest of its kingpin Sajjan Singh Parmar and a dentist, Devvrat Nayak, who were both produced in court on Wednesday and sent to police remand.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, during the course of his “Jan Ashirwad Yatra” on Sunday said that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre is responsible for rising prices, corruption and insecurity and this has frustrated the people who now want a Congress-free Madhya Pradesh.

All front-ranking Congress leaders from Madhya Pradesh on Sunday addressed a huge Congress rally here and gave a call for overthrowing the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led state BJP government in the coming Assembly election.