BJP will score hat-trick in MP: Anant Kumar

Claiming that BJP will register a hat-trick in the 2013 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, its national general secretary in-charge of the state, Anant Kumar, today said the party has chalked out a plan to "wipe out" Congress from the state in the polls.

"We have instructed senior MLAs and ministers to adopt the constituencies where BJP had lost in the last polls and nurture them to wipe out Congress from the state," Kumar said addressing the opening session of the two-day long executive meeting of state BJP.

He said the "magic" of Congress general secretary, Rahul Gandhi had totally failed in the Bihar assembly polls, and since then, he had stopped touring the country.

The BJP would form the government for the third time in a row in the next assembly polls, he said.

Kumar said the Congress-led UPA government at Centre had failed on all fronts, and the BJP would launch a statewide agitation on the issues of price rise, corruption and black money on the party's foundation day, April 6, to expose UPA's misrule.

He also announced that to highlight the step-motherly treatment being meted out to Madhya Pradesh, the state BJP will stage a protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue in Parliament.