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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday, 26 February said the issue of simultaneous elections will be discussed at the meeting of Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states in New Delhi on Wednesday as part of efforts to build a consensus on the issue. In a reply to a query at a meeting with a select group of journalists arranged by the BJP's Good Governance Cell, Chouhan said:
Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states and Deputy Chief Ministers of states where the BJP is in alliance, altogether representing 19 states, would attend a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review development work and to plan a strategy for the upcoming polls in some states.
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh are some of the major BJP-governed states that are due to go to the polls in 2018.
Chouhan said regular elections do not only hurt the states but is also a major hurdle to the central government.
"And people have a weird parameter that even if you lose one election, they start saying that the government has lost faith (of the people)," he said adding that it (simultaneous polls) was in the interest of the country and all should go for it.
(This story has been edited for length.)
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