Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath is likely to meet party president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday and may tender his resignation from the post following the party's debacle in the assembly elections, sources said. It was a landslide victory for the BJP as it won 163 seats in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly, while the Congress bagged 66 seats.
The polls were held on November 17 and votes counted on Sunday, December 3. Nath is likely to meet Kharge on Tuesday and could be asked to resign as party state unit chief, news agency PTI reported. The Congress leadership is also upset over Nath's remarks against many leaders of the INDIA bloc, including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar, over seat sharing, the report said.
While the Samajwadi Party was asking for only four to six seats, the JD(U) only one seat in Madhya Pradesh, to which Nath did not agree and peeved the leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc, formed to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Let's take a look at Kamal Nath four-decade-long political career
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath has donned many hats in his over 40-year-long political career. He plunged into politics as Sanjay Gandhi's loyalist and there has been looking back since then.
A former union Minister, he has won nine Lok Sabha elections from Chhindwara before returning to the state politics. In 2018 Assembly polls, Congress gained majority but the government fell in 20 months after Jyotiraditya Scindia along with loyalists rebelled against Nath government and joined the BJP.
Nath has been a union minister in different Congress-led governments. He first entered in Lok Sabha in 1980. He was Minister of Environment and Forests and Textiles Minister in the PV Narasimha Rao government. During two UPA governments, he was Commerce and Industry Minister in 2004-09. And in UPA-II, he held the portfolios of Road Transport and Highways, Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs.
He had held organisational posts including being in-charge of Gujarat and Haryana.
With inputs from PTI
First Published: Dec 5, 2023 9:29 AM IST
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