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Shivraj, Kamal Nath lead in MP as vote count continue

Written by : IANS

With the counting of votes underway for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Congress leader Kamal Nath are leading in their respective constituencies.

With the BJP taking an early lead, Chouhan, who contested the polls from his home town of Budhni in Sehor district, is leading against Congress' Vikram Mastal. Meanwhile, Kamal Nath is ahead in his bastion of Chhindwara with around 7,000 votes.

The BJP's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, state Home Minister Narottam Mishra and Senior Congress leader Ajay Singh (Rahul) are also leading.

But Union Minister Faggan Singh Kulaste, who contested from Niwas, is trailing behind the Congress' Chainsingh Warkade.

Kamal Nath along with former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh and Rajya Sabha MP Vivek Tankha are watching the poll results at the party's war room.

Though, the early trend shows the BJP having secured a massive lead in the first two rounds of counting, the Congress is expecting a change in the coming rounds.

BJP workers have already started celebration outside the party's state headquarters in Bhopal.

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