Madhya Pradesh polls 2023: Watch people line up outside the polling booths to cast their votes

Polling for all 230 seats for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly election began at 7 am on Friday. The votes will be counted on December 3.

Bhopal: The mood in Madhya Pradesh, one of the key states, started electing lawmakers to 230 seats in the Assembly at 7 a.m. on Friday. In the footage shared by news agency ANI, people can be seen queuing outside the polling booths to cast their votes. The main battle is mainly between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, while other political parties such as the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) are also involved in the battle.

With over 5 crore voters in the state set to choose their favorite candidates, these Assembly elections matter as they precede the crucial Lok Sabha elections scheduled for next year. Today, the fate of over 2,500 candidates will be sealed as the incumbent saffron party and the grand old party wage a fierce battle.

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The main battle in the state involves key leaders of the BJP such as Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the current chief minister of the state, from Budhni, Prahlad Singh Patel in Narsinghpur, former Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar from Dimni, Faggan Singh Kulaste in Niwas and the senior Congress leader. leader and former chief minister Kamal Nath in Chhindwara.