Key Points
The Congress has suffered a massive blow in the Hindi heartland as the party is set to lose all three states - Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh - it won in 2018..
In the last assembly election, the Congress had formed governments in all three states, but it lost Madhya Pradesh after some leaders defected to the BJP...
As of now, the BJP is ahead in all three states - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh..
Till a few months ago, almost every poll predicted a comfortable victory for Congress in Chhattisgarh and a better chance of coming back to power in Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of former chief minister Kamal Nath..
Kamal Nath had delivered Madhya Pradesh for Congress in 2018 but his rift with then-party colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia and poor crisis management from the top leadership resulted in the collapse of the state government..
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