<p>On the eve of polling in Madhya Pradesh, the ruling BJP strategists were busy fine-tuning party president Amit Shah’s formula.</p>.<p>Shah's strategy is to ensure a minimum of 10 agents in each of the 65,000-odd polling booths spread across 230 Assembly seats in the state.</p>.<p>The booths which the party has classified as 'weak', the number of agents could go up to 30, sources in the BJP said.</p>.<p>The sources said that the party is confident of beating the anti-incumbency factor by an effective booth management as it did in the Gujarat Assembly election.</p>.<p>The Congress is also gearing up to match the number of booth agents of its main opponent.</p>.<p>However, the BJP’s superior organisational strength coupled with active support of the RSS is a cause of worry for the Congress, party insiders said.</p>.<p>A senior Congress leader admitted that the party might not have as many workers to man the booths as the BJP is claiming to deploy but “ we are confident that voters have already made up their mind to oust the Shivraj government and they will not be swayed by the BJP’s show of strength in the booths”.</p>.<p>BJP’s strategists have planned to set up control rooms at three levels— district, divisional and state.</p>.<p>These control rooms will send reports of voting trends and workers’ movements to the state office every minute. </p>.<p>While strategists were busy chalking out plans for effective booth management, candidates and their supporters conducted door-to-door contacts with voters.</p>.<p>A total of 5.49 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the polling slated on Wednesday in which a total of 2,899 candidates are in fray.</p>.<p>The BJP has fielded candidates in all 230 seats while the Congress is contesting in 229 seat and has left one seat for Sharad Yadav’s Loktantrik Janata Dal.</p>.<p>The Bahujan Samaj Party is contesting on 227, Samajwadi Party on 51, Aam Adami Party on 208 and fledgling SAPAKS Samaj Party on 109 seats.</p>.<p>The most high-profile election is in Budni seat where Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chuhan is pitted against former PCC president Arun Yadav.</p>.<p>The high-octane election campaign, packed with personal attacks, bitter allegations and tall promises, came to an end in Madhya Pradesh on Monday.</p>.<p>The Election Commission of India has deployed 1.80 lakh police personnel and three lakh government staff on poll duty, including 4,500 women staff.</p>
<p>On the eve of polling in Madhya Pradesh, the ruling BJP strategists were busy fine-tuning party president Amit Shah’s formula.</p>.<p>Shah's strategy is to ensure a minimum of 10 agents in each of the 65,000-odd polling booths spread across 230 Assembly seats in the state.</p>.<p>The booths which the party has classified as 'weak', the number of agents could go up to 30, sources in the BJP said.</p>.<p>The sources said that the party is confident of beating the anti-incumbency factor by an effective booth management as it did in the Gujarat Assembly election.</p>.<p>The Congress is also gearing up to match the number of booth agents of its main opponent.</p>.<p>However, the BJP’s superior organisational strength coupled with active support of the RSS is a cause of worry for the Congress, party insiders said.</p>.<p>A senior Congress leader admitted that the party might not have as many workers to man the booths as the BJP is claiming to deploy but “ we are confident that voters have already made up their mind to oust the Shivraj government and they will not be swayed by the BJP’s show of strength in the booths”.</p>.<p>BJP’s strategists have planned to set up control rooms at three levels— district, divisional and state.</p>.<p>These control rooms will send reports of voting trends and workers’ movements to the state office every minute. </p>.<p>While strategists were busy chalking out plans for effective booth management, candidates and their supporters conducted door-to-door contacts with voters.</p>.<p>A total of 5.49 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the polling slated on Wednesday in which a total of 2,899 candidates are in fray.</p>.<p>The BJP has fielded candidates in all 230 seats while the Congress is contesting in 229 seat and has left one seat for Sharad Yadav’s Loktantrik Janata Dal.</p>.<p>The Bahujan Samaj Party is contesting on 227, Samajwadi Party on 51, Aam Adami Party on 208 and fledgling SAPAKS Samaj Party on 109 seats.</p>.<p>The most high-profile election is in Budni seat where Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chuhan is pitted against former PCC president Arun Yadav.</p>.<p>The high-octane election campaign, packed with personal attacks, bitter allegations and tall promises, came to an end in Madhya Pradesh on Monday.</p>.<p>The Election Commission of India has deployed 1.80 lakh police personnel and three lakh government staff on poll duty, including 4,500 women staff.</p>