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“When intimidation is of the kind that people are having to withdraw from electoral contests, where is a free and fair election. Where is a free and fair election when the prime minister delivers a hate speech but he is not held responsible, the notice goes to the party president, where is a free and fair election when the Election Commission looks the other way when candidate after candidate is being intimidated,” Shrinate said.The Congress had fielded Bam (45), a newbie in the poll arena, against sitting BJP MP Shankar Lalwani (62) from the Indore seat, which is a stronghold of the saffron party.Bam has not contested a single election in his political career so far.The Congress offered him the opportunity to contest from Indore at a time when several party workers, including three former MLAs of the party, have switched sides and joined the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.Indore, the largest constituency in the state in terms of number of voters, has 25. 13 lakh electors.
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Congress after its Indore candidate withdraws nomination
