Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee
President	Jitu Patwari
Chairman	Umang Singhar (Leader of Opposition)
Headquarters	Indira Bhawan, Link Road No.1, Shivaji Nagar, Bhopal-462016, Madhya Pradesh
Youth wing	Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress
Women's wing	Madhya Pradesh Mahila Congress
Labour wing	Unorganised Workers' and Employees Congress [1]
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre
ECI Status	A State Unit of Indian National Congress
Alliance	Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Seats in  Rajya Sabha	3 / 11
Seats in  Lok Sabha	0 / 29
Seats in  Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly	64 / 230
Website
https://mpcongress.org/
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Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee(MPCC) is the Pradesh Congress Committee (state wing) of the Indian National Congress (INC) serving in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. ^[2] It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections. The incumbent president of the MPCC is Jitu Patwari. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Structure and composition

Sl no.	Incharge	Name	Designation
1	Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee	Jitu Patwari	President
2	Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee	Jaivardhan Singh	Vice President
3	Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee	Vacant	Working President
4	Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee	Bala Bachchan	Working President
5	Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee	Surender Choudhary	Working President
6	Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee	Ashok Singh [8]	Treasurer
7	Media Department	Mukesh Nayak	Chairman
8	NSUI Madhya Pradesh	Aashutosh Chouksey	President
9	Sevadal	Avanish Bhargav	President
10	Madhya Pradesh Mahila Congress	Reena Bourasi	President
11	Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress	Yash Ghanghoria	President

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Year	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
1952	Ravishankar Shukla	194 / 232	New	Government
1957	Kailash Nath Katju	232 / 288	38	Government
1962	Dwarka Prasad Mishra	142 / 288	90	Government
1967		167 / 296	25	Opposition later Government
1972	Prakash Chandra Sethi	220 / 296	53	Government
1977	Shyama Charan Shukla	84 / 320	136	Opposition
1980	Arjun Singh	246 / 320	162	Government
1985		250 / 320	4	Government
1990	Shyama Charan Shukla	56 / 320	194	Opposition
1993	Digvijay Singh	174 / 320	118	Government
1998		172 / 320	2	Government
2003		38 / 230	86	Opposition
2008	Suresh Pachouri	71 / 230	33	Opposition
2013	Vivek Tankha	58 / 230	13	Opposition
2018	Kamal Nath	114 / 230	56	Government later Opposition
2023		66 / 230	48	Opposition

Madhya Pradesh Congress Legislative Assembly seat count

List of state presidents

S. No.	Photo	Name	Took office	Left office
1		Radhakishan Malviya	1998	2003
2		Subhash Yadav	2003	2008
3		Suresh Pachouri	2008	2011
4		Kantilal Bhuria	2011	2014
5		Arun Yadav	2014	2018
6		Kamal Nath	2018	2023
7		Jitu Patwari	2023	Incumbent

List of chief ministers

Main article: List of Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh

Ravishankar Shukla

Arjun Singh

Digvijaya Singh

Kamal Nath

S. No.	Name	Term of office		Party [a]		Days in office
1	Ravishankar Shukla MLA for Saraipali	1 November 1956	31 December 1956	Indian National Congress		61 days
2	Bhagwantrao Mandloi MLA for Khandwa	1 January 1957	30 January 1957			30 days
3	Kailash Nath Katju MLA for Jaora	31 January 1957	14 March 1957			43 days
		14 March 1957	11 March 1962			1824 days
4	Bhagwantrao Mandloi MLA for Khandwa	12 March 1962	29 September 1963			567 days
5	Dwarka Prasad Mishra MLA for katangi	30 September 1963	8 March 1967			1256 days
		9 March 1967	29 July 1967			113 days
6	Nareshchandra Singh MLA for Pussore	13 March 1969	25 March 1969	Indian National Congress		13 days
7	Shyama Charan Shukla MLA for Rajim	26 March 1969	28 January 1972			1039 days
8	Prakash Chandra Sethi MLA for Ujjain Uttar	29 January 1972	22 March 1972			54 days
		23 March 1972	22 December 1975			1370 days
9	Shyama Charan Shukla [2] MLA for Rajim	23 December 1975	29 April 1977			494 days
10	Arjun Singh MLA for Churhat	8 June 1980	10 March 1985	Indian National Congress		1737 days
		11 March 1985	12 March 1985			2 days
11	Motilal Vora MLA for Durg	13 March 1985	13 February 1988			1068 days
12	Arjun Singh [2] MLA for Churhat	14 February 1988	24 January 1989			346 days
13	Motilal Vora [2] MLA for Durg	25 January 1989	8 December 1989			318 days
14	Shyama Charan Shukla [3]	9 December 1989	4 March 1990			86 days
15	Digvijaya Singh MLA for Raghogarh	7 December 1993	1 December 1998	Indian National Congress		1821 days
		1 December 1998	8 December 2003			1834 days
16	Kamal Nath MLA for Chhindwara	17 December 2018	23 March 2020	Indian National Congress		463 days

Electoral performance

Main article: Statewise Election history of Congress Party

General Elections

Lok Sabha Elections

Year	Lok Sabha	Seats contested	Seats won	Change in seats	% of votes	Vote swing	Popular vote	Outcome
1951	1st	29	27 / 29	27	51.63%	New	37,13,537	Government
1957	2nd	36	35 / 36	8	52.10%	0.47	39,67,199	Government
1962	3rd	35	24 / 36	11	39.55%	12.55	26,51,882	Government
1967	4th	37	24 / 37		40.78%	1.23	37,74,364	Government
1971	5th	36	21 / 37	3	45.60%	4.82	40,27,658	Government
1977	6th	38	1 / 40	20	32.47%	13.13	38,35,807	Opposition
1980	7th	39	35 / 40	34	47.20%	14.73	59,49,859	Government
1984	8th	40	40 / 40	5	57.08%	9.88	88,98,835	Government
1989	9th	40	8 / 40	32	37.72%	19.36	74,20,935	Opposition
1991	10th	40	27 / 40	19	45.34%	7.62	74,25,644	Government
1996	11th	40	8 / 40	19	31.02%	14.32	71,11,753	Opposition
1998	12th	40	10 / 40	2	39.40%	8.38	1,06,11,317	Opposition
1999	13th	40	11 / 40	1	43.91%	4.51	1,11,35,161	Opposition
2004	14th	29	4 / 29	7	34.07%	9.84	62,89,013	Government
2009	15th	28	12 / 29	8	40.14%	6.07	78,20,333	Government
2014	16th	29	2 / 29	10	35.35%	4.79	1,03,40,274	Opposition
2019	17th	29	1 / 29	1	34.82%	0.53	1,27,33,074	Opposition
2024	18th	28	0 / 29	1	32.90%	1.92	1,23,08,049	Opposition

Factions

Madhya Pradesh Vikas Congress was a faction in the Congress Party from 1996 to 1998. MPVC was founded by former aviation minister Madhavrao Scindia, after he was refused an INC ticket for the 1996 Lok Sabha elections.

Scindia won a seat ^[9] as an MPVC candidate as a result of hard work & strong campaign led by his workers & followers who had also resigned from INC. ^[10] In 1998 MPVC merged into Indian National Congress.

List of Disrict Congress Committee- Presidents

S.No	DCC	President
1	Agar-Malwa	Vijaylaxmi Tanwar
2	Alirajpur	Mukesh Patel
3	Anuppur	Shyam Kumar Guddu
4	Ashok Nagar(city & Rural	Rajendra Kushwaha
5	Balaghat	Sanjay Uikey
6	Barwani	Shri Nanesh Coudhary
7	Betul	Shri Nilay Vinod Daga
8	Bhind Rural	Ramshish Baghel
9	Bhind City	Darmendra Bhadoriya
10	Bhopal City	Praveen Saxena
11	Bhopal Rural	Anokhi Man Singh Patel
12	Burhanpur City	Harsh Tank Rinku
13	Burhanpur Rural	Ravinder Mahajan
14	Chhatarpur	Gagan Yadav
15	Chhindwara	Vishwanath Okhte
16	Damoh	Manak Patel
17	Datia	Ashok Dangi
18	Dewas City	Prayas Gautam
19	Dewas Rural	Manish Choudhary
20	Dhar	Swatantra Joshi
21	Dindori	Omkar Sing Markam
22	Guna	Jaivardhan Singh
23	Gwalior City	Surendra Yadav
24	Gwalior Rural	Prabhudayal Johare
25	Harda	Mohan Sai
26	Indore City	Chintu Chouksey
27	Indore Rural	Vipin Wankhede
28	Jabalpur City	Sourabh Nati Sharma
29	Jabalpur Rural	Sanjay Yadav
30	Jhabua	Prakash Ranka
31	Katni City	Amit Kumar Shukla
32	Katni Rural	Kuwar Sourabh Singh
33	Khandwa City	Pratibha Raghuvanshi
34	Khandwa Rural	Uttan Pal Singh Purni
35	Khargone	Ravi Naik
36	Maihar	Dharmesh Ghai
37	Mandla	Dr. Ashok Markole
38	Mandsaur	Mahendra Singh Gurjar
39	Mauganj	Hiralal Kol
40	Morena City	Gajendra Jatav
41	Morena Rural	Madhuraj Tomar
42	Narmadapuram	Shivakant Pandey
43	Narsinghpur	Sunita Patel
44	Neemush	Tarun Baheti
45	Niwadi	Rajesh Yadav
46	Pandurna	Jatan Uikey
47	Panna	Anis Khan
48	Raisen	Devendra Patel
49	Rajgarh	Priyavrat Singh
50	Ratlam City	Shantilal Verma
51	Ratlam Rural	Harshvijay Gehlot
52	Rewa City	Ashok Patel
53	Rewa Rural	Rajinder Sharma
54	Sagar City	Mahesh Jatav
55	Sagar Rural	Bhupendra Singh Mohasa
56	Satna City	Arif Iqbal siddique
57	Satna Rural	Siddharth Kushwaha
58	Sehore	Rajiv Gujarati
59	Seoni	Naresh Marawai
60	Shahdol	Ajay Awasti
61	Shajapur	Nareshwar Pratap Singh
62	Sheopur	Mangilal Bhairwa Fauji
63	Shivpuri	Mohit Agrawal
64	Sidhi	Gyan Pratap Singh
65	Singhrauli City	Praveen Singh Chauhan
66	Singhrauli Rural	Saraswati Singh Markam
67	Tikamgarh	Naveen Sahu
68	Ujjain City	Mukesh Bhati
69	Ujjain Rural	Mahesh Parmar
70	Umaria	Engineer Vijay Kumar Kol
71	Vidisha	Mohit Raghuvanshi

See also

• Indian National Congress
• Congress Working Committee
• All India Congress Committee
• Pradesh Congress Committee
• Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress

Notes

1. This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.

References

1. "Under the leadership of Ashutosh Bisen, the Congress party is becoming the voice of the workers of the unorganized sector of Madhya Pradesh". BhaskarLive. 22 February 2022. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
2. Congress in States Archived 18 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine All India Congress Committee website.
3. "Jitu Patwari Replaces Kamal Nath As MP Congress Chief, Baij To Continue Leading C'garh Unit". abplive. 16 December 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
4. Sharma, Hemender. "Congress leader Kamal Nath starts Madhya Pradesh campaign with three Masjids visits". INDIA TODAY. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
5. "Not in race for any post, says Kamal Nath as he takes charge". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
6. "Kamal Nath, Now the Unanimous Face of Congress, Rejuvenates Party Workers in MP". news18. News18. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
7. Rai, DS. "What Kamal Nath as president means for Congress in Madhya Pradesh". dailyo. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
8. "Indian National Congress".
9. "Scindia". Rediff. 6 March 1998. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
10. Desai, Bharat (15 May 1996). "Elections 1996: Madhavrao Scindia quits Congress(I), takes on party high command". INDIA TODAY. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

External links

• Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee, Official website
• Indian National Congress, Official website