BHOPAL: State Congress chief Kamal Nath said on Sunday that local bodies' elections are a semifinal ahead of 2023 assembly election and incumbent party MLAs and aspirants for party ticket to contest assembly election must remember that party's performance in these elections would form the basis of their report card. Every leader and worker of the Congress has to put in all their might in the local bodies' election.
Addressing a meeting of divisional and district in-charge of the party, he said that the ruling BJP doesn't spare a chance to misuse the administration, therefore all candidates should remain cautious from the time they file their nomination to the time of counting of votes. Nath said that the work of filing nomination for the election has been completed. Majority of candidates have been given the B-form and only some are left. All the election in-charge should apprise the candidates of technical aspects of the election and should ensure that there is no technical error in filing of nomination.