A faction led by Jyotiraditya Scindia who, along with at least 17 legislators, went incommunicado, sparking intense speculation about the fate of Kamal Nath-led Congressgovernment.
Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia along with 19 MLAs on Tuesday resigned from the party. The development came after the disgruntled leader and former MP from Guna in Madhya Pradesh met with the top two of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi — in New Delhi.
In a surprise move, all 20 Cabinet ministers in the Madhya Pradesh government had tendered their resignations to Chief Minister Kamal Nath at around 11:30 pm Monday, plunging the state's Congress government into a political uncertainty. The CM accepted their resignations and was likely to reconstitute the Cabinet today.
Earlier in the day, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi met current president Sonia Gandhi to discuss the political crisis in Madhya Pradesh after several MLAs close to Scindia flew to Bengaluru and went incommunicado. A legislative party meeting of the Congress is taking place in Bhopal.
A few days ago, it had been alleged that the BJP, the principal Opposition in the state, was holding at least eight Madhya Pradesh MLAs against their will at a resort in Gurugram and in Bengaluru.
In the 2018 Assembly election, the Congress, which had won 114 seats in the 230-member House, had formed the government with support from four Independent MLAs and two BSP MLAs, and a legislator from the Samajwadi Party (SP). The BJP had secured 109 seats in the state Assembly.
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Kamal Nath writes to MP Governor, recommends the immediate removal of six ministers
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Madhya Pradesh government: Know the numbers
Here's how the numbers stack up if the Congress MLAs exit from the Madhya Pradesh government.
Total assembly size
227
Current strength
120 MLAs with Kamal Nath government
Majority mark: 116
Margin: 4 above majority mark
Composition: 114 Congress, 6 allies
Without 20 Congress MLAs
Majority mark comes down to 104
Total MLAs falls to 207
Congress: 100
BJP: 107
02:58 PM
Not surprised that Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from Congress & will join BJP: Former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh
Former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh: I am not surprised that Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from Congress & will join BJP. I feel he will be sent to Rajya Sabha & inducted into Union Cabinet. His father Madhavrao Scindia would have been Prime Minister if he had lived.
02:57 PM
Most of the Congress MLAs will resign from the Congress in coming days as they are fed up with the functioning of Kamal Nath govt
Bisahu Lal Sahu: I have resigned from the Congress as well as from the membership of State Assembly. I have joined BJP. Most of the Congress MLAs will resign from the Congress in coming days as they are fed up with the functioning of Kamal Nath govt
02:18 PM
Jyotiraditya Scindia leaves from his residence
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Delhi: Jyotiraditya Scindia leaves from his residence. He had met PM Narendra Modi and HM Amit Shah earlier today and had tendered his resignation to Congress President Sonia Gandhi
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The government is not going to fall, says Congress leader Kantilal Bhuria
Congress leader Kantilal Bhuria after meeting Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath: State govt is strong and it will continue to run. The government is not going to fall because someone is saying so. We have required number of MLAs.
02:02 PM
Congress' youth wing chief thanks Sonia Gandhi for expelling Jyotiraditya Scindia
Indian Youth Congress (IYC) chief Srinivas B V on Tuesday slammed Jyotiraditya Scindia, who has announced his resignation from the primary membership of the Congress, and thanked party chief Sonia Gandhi for expelling the former Guna MP "who was promoting anti-party activities and factionalism".
Soon after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Tuesday, disgruntled Madhya Pradesh Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia tendered his resignation to party president Sonia Gandhi, saying it was now time for him to move on.
"The history of 1857 and 1967 was once again repeated," Srinivas B V said, referring to the 1857 Revolt against East India Company and the role of the Scindia royals back then as well as Vijayaraje Scindia's switch from the Congress to the Jana Sangh in 1967.
"I would like to thank Congress president Sonia Gandhiji for taking the strong steps to expel the leader who was promoting anti-party activities and factionalism," the IYC chief said.
"No person is, nor will be greater than the party," he added.
01:59 PM
MP political crisis: Digvijaya Singh, other Congress leaders meet Kamal Nath
Amid an ongoing political crisis in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh, Jitu Patwari, Bala Bachchan, Sajjan Singh Verma, Surendra Singh Baghel and others arrived at Chief Minister Kamal Nath's residence here on Tuesday.
The meeting came even as senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from the party, stating that "it is time to move on."
"Having been a primary member of the Congress Party for the last 18 years. it is now time for me to move on. I am tendering my resignation from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress and as you well know this is a path that has been drawing itself out over the last year," said Scindia in his resignation letter submitted to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi.
01:26 PM
19 Congress MLAs including six state ministers from Madhya Pradesh who are in Bengaluru, tender their resignation from party
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan: For some Congress leaders when Scindia was in Congress he was a Maharaja, now he is a mafia?
Shivraj Singh Chouhan: For some Congress leaders when Scindia ji was in Congress he was a Maharaja, now he is a mafia? These are their double standards.
01:02 PM
Our govt in Madhya Pradesh won't survive, says Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary
Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, Congress leader in Lok Sabha: So yes it will indeed be a loss to our party and I don't think our Govt in Madhya Pradesh will survive. This is the present-day politics of BJP, always tries to topple and destabilize opposition govts.
01:01 PM
Maybe Scindia got lured by the offer of ministership given by Modi: Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary
Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, Congress leader in Lok Sabha: Scindia ji held many senior posts in Congress party and was well respected, maybe he got lured by the offer of ministership given by Modi. We know his family has been associated with BJP for decades, but yet it is a big loss.
Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia along with 19 MLAs on Tuesday resigned from the party. The development came after the disgruntled leader and former MP from Guna in Madhya Pradesh met with the top two of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi — in New Delhi.
In a surprise move, all 20 Cabinet ministers in the Madhya Pradesh government had tendered their resignations to Chief Minister Kamal Nath at around 11:30 pm Monday, plunging the state's Congress government into a political uncertainty. The CM accepted their resignations and was likely to reconstitute the Cabinet today.
Earlier in the day, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi met current president Sonia Gandhi to discuss the political crisis in Madhya Pradesh after several MLAs close to Scindia flew to Bengaluru and went incommunicado. A legislative party meeting of the Congress is taking place in Bhopal.
A few days ago, it had been alleged that the BJP, the principal Opposition in the state, was holding at least eight Madhya Pradesh MLAs against their will at a resort in Gurugram and in Bengaluru.
In the 2018 Assembly election, the Congress, which had won 114 seats in the 230-member House, had formed the government with support from four Independent MLAs and two BSP MLAs, and a legislator from the Samajwadi Party (SP). The BJP had secured 109 seats in the state Assembly.
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Kamal Nath writes to MP Governor, recommends the immediate removal of six ministers
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03:07 PM
Madhya Pradesh government: Know the numbers
Here's how the numbers stack up if the Congress MLAs exit from the Madhya Pradesh government.
Total assembly size
227
Current strength
120 MLAs with Kamal Nath government
Majority mark: 116
Margin: 4 above majority mark
Composition: 114 Congress, 6 allies
Without 20 Congress MLAs
Majority mark comes down to 104
Total MLAs falls to 207
Congress: 100
BJP: 107
02:58 PM
Not surprised that Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from Congress & will join BJP: Former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh
Former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh: I am not surprised that Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from Congress & will join BJP. I feel he will be sent to Rajya Sabha & inducted into Union Cabinet. His father Madhavrao Scindia would have been Prime Minister if he had lived.
02:57 PM
Most of the Congress MLAs will resign from the Congress in coming days as they are fed up with the functioning of Kamal Nath govt
Bisahu Lal Sahu: I have resigned from the Congress as well as from the membership of State Assembly. I have joined BJP. Most of the Congress MLAs will resign from the Congress in coming days as they are fed up with the functioning of Kamal Nath govt
02:18 PM
Jyotiraditya Scindia leaves from his residence
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Delhi: Jyotiraditya Scindia leaves from his residence. He had met PM Narendra Modi and HM Amit Shah earlier today and had tendered his resignation to Congress President Sonia Gandhi
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02:17 PM
The government is not going to fall, says Congress leader Kantilal Bhuria
Congress leader Kantilal Bhuria after meeting Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath: State govt is strong and it will continue to run. The government is not going to fall because someone is saying so. We have required number of MLAs.
02:02 PM
Congress' youth wing chief thanks Sonia Gandhi for expelling Jyotiraditya Scindia
Indian Youth Congress (IYC) chief Srinivas B V on Tuesday slammed Jyotiraditya Scindia, who has announced his resignation from the primary membership of the Congress, and thanked party chief Sonia Gandhi for expelling the former Guna MP "who was promoting anti-party activities and factionalism".
Soon after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Tuesday, disgruntled Madhya Pradesh Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia tendered his resignation to party president Sonia Gandhi, saying it was now time for him to move on.
"The history of 1857 and 1967 was once again repeated," Srinivas B V said, referring to the 1857 Revolt against East India Company and the role of the Scindia royals back then as well as Vijayaraje Scindia's switch from the Congress to the Jana Sangh in 1967.
"I would like to thank Congress president Sonia Gandhiji for taking the strong steps to expel the leader who was promoting anti-party activities and factionalism," the IYC chief said.
"No person is, nor will be greater than the party," he added.
01:59 PM
MP political crisis: Digvijaya Singh, other Congress leaders meet Kamal Nath
Amid an ongoing political crisis in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh, Jitu Patwari, Bala Bachchan, Sajjan Singh Verma, Surendra Singh Baghel and others arrived at Chief Minister Kamal Nath's residence here on Tuesday.
The meeting came even as senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from the party, stating that "it is time to move on."
"Having been a primary member of the Congress Party for the last 18 years. it is now time for me to move on. I am tendering my resignation from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress and as you well know this is a path that has been drawing itself out over the last year," said Scindia in his resignation letter submitted to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi.
01:26 PM
19 Congress MLAs including six state ministers from Madhya Pradesh who are in Bengaluru, tender their resignation from party
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01:13 PM
Shivraj Singh Chouhan: For some Congress leaders when Scindia was in Congress he was a Maharaja, now he is a mafia?
Shivraj Singh Chouhan: For some Congress leaders when Scindia ji was in Congress he was a Maharaja, now he is a mafia? These are their double standards.
01:02 PM
Our govt in Madhya Pradesh won't survive, says Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary
Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, Congress leader in Lok Sabha: So yes it will indeed be a loss to our party and I don't think our Govt in Madhya Pradesh will survive. This is the present-day politics of BJP, always tries to topple and destabilize opposition govts.
01:01 PM
Maybe Scindia got lured by the offer of ministership given by Modi: Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary
Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, Congress leader in Lok Sabha: Scindia ji held many senior posts in Congress party and was well respected, maybe he got lured by the offer of ministership given by Modi. We know his family has been associated with BJP for decades, but yet it is a big loss.
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