MP Crisis: BJP Asks Kamal Nath To Prove Majority By March 16

Bhopal: Stepping up pressure on the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has on Thursday, demanded that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath prove his majority by March 16. The BJP confident of its numbers, has moved its MLAs to the ITC Grand Hotel in Gurugram.

The Congress, on its part, claims that it can prove its majority on the floor of the house and that MP chief Minister Kamal Nath would complete his full term.

With the Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly seeking to buy time to save the imperilled Kamal Nath government, the Congress leadership is pressing into service senior leaders to placate rebel MLAs of the party who are holed up in a resort in Bengaluru. The Congress had appointed on Wednesday one of its top trouble shooters, DK Shiva Kumar as the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President.

The Interim President of the Congress Party Sonia Gandhi held a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the political developments in Madhya Pradesh and the imminent threat to the Kamal Nath government.

The top Congress leadership is constantly monitoring the situation, seeking to retain its flock. Party leaders have already shifted their MLAs to Jaipur in Rajasthan which is a Congress ruled state.

When asked by media Patiala on Wednesday, Nakul North Chhindwara MP and CM Kamal Nath's son, remarked that there was no threat to the Congress government in the state. Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh and several other MLAs of the party have also expressed their confidence that the Kamal Nath government would not face any threat from the exit of senior leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and some of his followers.