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Madhya Pradesh bypoll: Congress manifesto promises help to Covid victims' kin
Congress on Saturday released its manifesto for the upcoming state Assembly bypolls, in which it promised to provide help to the families of those who died of coronavirus, if it returned to power in the state.In the 'Vachan Patra' released by state Congress chief Kamal Nath for the November 3 bypolls to 28 assembly seats in the state, the opposition party also promised to roll out a farm loan waiver scheme, a welfare scheme for cows and uplift of the Gwalior-Chambal region.In order to return to power in the state, which the Congress lost in March this year, the party has to win all the 28 assembly seats, while the ruling BJP only needs nine seats to reach the majority mark of 116 in the 230-member House.In the manifesto, Congress promised