In India, the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) did something very unusual last week. In a departure from its previous strategy, the party did not wait for assembly election dates to be announced first before declaring it’s candidates.<br /><br />So for the all important state of Madhya Pradesh, the party announced as many as 39 candidates in seats where it believes it is vulnerable. The polls are due at the end of the year and the seats the BJP has declared are those that it lost in 2018 and even lost in the previous assembly in 2013.<br /><br />Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/tight-race-ahead-in-india-bjp-and-congress-locked-in-a-battle-for-madhya-pradesh-1.1692958339770<br /><br />See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos<br />Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km<br /><br />Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV<br /><br />#UAEnews #MadhyaPradesh #India
