The Congress on Monday night declared its candidate for the last remaining assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh, Amla in Betul district, but with a bureaucrat who was tipped to be the party nominee not getting government's nod in time to quit service, the ticket has gone to someone else for the next month's polls.
The opposition party fielded its member Manoj Malve from Amla and with this, it has completed the process of putting up nominees on all the 230 assembly seats for the November 17 elections.
The Congress, in two separate lists, had declared 229 candidates with only the Amla seat left out.
Earlier, Betul deputy collector Nisha Bangre, whose resignation is awaiting the state government's approval, was tipped to be the Congress candidate from the constituency.
However, after the announcement of Malve's candidature, suspense over Bangre's entry into poll fray has ended. Bangre has approached the Madhya Pradesh high court seeking direction to the government for speedy acceptance of her resignation, which she tendered on June 22. -- PTI