BHOPAL: Former union ministers Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia, keen to head the PCC, do not want to put their prestige at stake in the upcoming assembly by-polls in Ater and Bandhavgarh constituencies. They are yet to join the campaigning in these constituencies.
Nath will reach Bandhavgarh at 11 am on April 2 and depart for Delhi at 12.30 pm. During his one-and-a-half-hour stay, he will address a meeting of Congress workers, not a public meeting. He is reaching Chhinndwara on March 31. Though leader of opposition Ajay Singh claimed Scindia would be campaigning in Ater, his tour programme of none of the two constituencies has been announced so far. Ajay Singh and Arun Yadav are only two senior Congress leaders campaigning in these two constituencies. Nath and Scindia had campaigned intensively in Shahdol Lok Sabha by-elections but the Congress had to bite the dust in the polls. And that has probably led to the two leaders maintaining a distance from campaigning in the state.